Am 23.01.2014 12:13, schrieb Richard Hughes:
On 23 January 2014 10:12, Reindl Harald
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
> have you ever considered software as done and no known bugs?
Okay, I'll bite.
>
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/sound/mp3-utils/mp3info/
> upstream may dead, upstream my be alive but nothing to do
> the software does what it is expected to do
> so why should there be a new release?
From the README of mp3info-0.8.5a.tgz:
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TO DO
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* ID3v2 support is the most often-requested feature and is badly needed,
however this will entail an almost complete rewrite and I'm a lazy SOB,
so it's going to be a while yet... Anybody wanna volunteer?
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So, a command line program for getting info from an MP3 that doesn't
support ID3v2, which is a 16 year old protocol that basically every CD
ripping program defaults to? I'm not sure that supports your argument
much
well, my usage of that tool is simply to get the duration from
files with a PHP script indexing my music archive, that call is
unchanged the last 7 years and so i continue to refuse the benefit
of throw a package out of the distribution because there is no
new upstream release
$handle = popen($GLOBALS['music_bin_mp3info'] . ' -p "%S" ' .
escapeshellarg($path), 'r');
yes, i know that it is not a fedora package
mp3info-0.8.5a-20.fc20.20131231.rh.x86_64
but it is a good example of something used and just works with our
witout new upstream releases