TagLib / Amarok

Submitted by coplan on Mon, 2006-12-18 23:24. | news | public release

To make a long story short, I use the Amarok player, a KDE program, in Linux to play a lot of my music library. Most songs are MP3s, but I still have an incredibly VAST collection of oldskool tracked music in XM, MOD, IT and S3M formats. Amorok plays the music fine. But I cannot add it to the library. I want that to happen.

The Amorok Developer has no interest in supporting the file formats. He suggested that I contact the TagLib developer as Amarok uses Taglib for its library support. Both developers have stated that they'd be willing to accept a patch supporting the format, but prefer not to do the code themselves.

From an open-source development point of view, it would make much more sense to add such support to TagLib as many programs utilize the library. More people would benefit from a TagLib patch. I would love to do that, but alas I am not a C++ programmer. I'm hoping someone out there has similar needs and has the ability to help me out to get this patch submitted.

Here's the bug/wishlist posting: Bug 90524

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