[mb-devel] Actually Active?

[Ryan Cross]

Hi guys, 

Appologies first, because I really appreciate the work that everyone has
done. I know that tagger is supposedly dead (though, I often find it better
for my needs). I'm just curious if picard is actually being developed. It
seems like it's been 9-10 months since 7.2 has been released, and I know
there are supposedly a lot of big UI changes that people want to make and
lots of other missing/desired features. But it seems like there is no
progress on any of it. My appologies if I begin to rant, but I've been
slowing going through a very big collection of mp3s to get worked out. I got
to a point where I had groups of full albums for a lot of things so I
started feeding it through picard thinking this was what it was for. More or
less, I got things working - I thought. And after quite a bit of time, I got
a good chunk of the albums done and decided to import them into iTunes to
check things out, as well as media monkey and winamp (since I have yet to
find a player/organizer that works for me). I was really upset when I
started to notice that seemingly randomly, the tags I had thought picard was
applying didn't actually seem to be saved. What's even worse is that I'm
fairly sure most of the previous tags were at least there - though slightly
wrong. So now I've got huge holes in my tags - some files have blank
artists, some have blank album titles, some seem to have changed comments
and genres (which I tried testing along time ago and didn't think
picard/tagger changed those fields). So, as you can imagine I'm upset about
the lost time and effort but I'm also surprised that (if this is a bug)
hasn't been worked out before the 0.1 release. Secondly, I keep feeling like
I'll be patient and wait for the next big release but this doesn't seem to
be happening. So, my appologies for the long email but I guess it boils down
to - what's the status? And what's holding things up?

Happy new year, 
Ryan