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Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a
- From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin at fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 03:22:34 +0400
- Subject: Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a
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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