[emms-help] Re: Remove emms-info-ogg.el/ogg-comment.el?

[Lucas Bonnet]

Tim Landscheidt <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> since some time ago the manual recommends using
> emms-info-*ogginfo*.el to retrieve Ogg Vorbis comments. The
> only major advantage of emms-info-*ogg*.el, not to have to
> rely on external programs, is gone since nowadays it uses
> ogginfo to retrieve the playback length as well. Further,
> the native parser seems to fail on non-ASCII comments:
>
> | ELISP> (oggc-read-header "/usr/share/jukebox/Björk, David Arnold: Play 
> Dead.ogg")
> | ("Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20020717"
> |  (("artist" "Bj\303\266rk, David Arnold")
> |   ("title" "Play Dead")))

Same here.

> Therefore, rather than spending time to fix this, I propose
> to remove emms-info-*ogg*.el and ogg-comment.el completely.

Makes sense, since there are: -ogginfo and -libtag that are both able to
read Ogg comments. I'll remove it.


Regards,
-- 
Lucas

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