On 30/05/2014 19:28 +0400, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2014-05-29 17:14, David Stacey wrote: >> On 29/05/14 18:26, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >>> Sorry; our policy is to not include MP3 software in the distribution, >>> so unfortunately this package cannot be accepted. >> >> Could you possibly elaborate on this please, as I wasn't aware of this >> policy. I presume that it's something like licence issues (not free as >> in freedom) or the risk of patent violation surrounding MP3. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items#MP3_Support > >> I ask because a little while ago I managed to put a typo in a tag of a >> number of MP4 files, and corrected these by building AtomicParsley [1] >> for Cygwin. I had intended to offer it here, in case someone else found >> it useful. If AtomicParsley falls under the same policy then that's >> fine; I'll strike it off my list of things to do. > > The issues with some multimedia formats generally only apply to > playing or writing the actual media stream (as mp3info does), not to > reading the metadata ("tags"). Note that libid3tag and taglib are > both in the distro for this reason. > > Similarly, AtomicParsley falls in the latter category, and is already > in Fedora, so feel free to ITP it if you wish. The latest versions > have been moved to BitBucket though: > > https://bitbucket.org/wez/atomicparsley/downloads > > HTH, > > > Yaakov
mp3info does not write or play mp3 stream (but it may read the stream when given -r or -x switches, I don't know exactly). Are we talking about the same program? Filipp
