[ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[Filipp Gunbin]

I'd like to maintain mp3info for Cygwin.  It does not have a good build
system, but it's simple and I somewhat managed it to work.  Besides
using it as a standalone utility, it can be used in Emacs EMMS (that's
in fact is why I need it).

Project page: http://ibiblio.org/mp3info/
Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/mp3info

http://fgunbin.fastmail.fm/pub/mp3info-cygwin/mp3info-0.8.5a-1.tar.xz
http://fgunbin.fastmail.fm/pub/mp3info-cygwin/mp3info-0.8.5a-1-src.tar.xz
http://fgunbin.fastmail.fm/pub/mp3info-cygwin/setup.hint
http://fgunbin.fastmail.fm/pub/mp3info-cygwin/mp3info-gtk/mp3info-gtk-0.8.5a-1.tar.xz
http://fgunbin.fastmail.fm/pub/mp3info-cygwin/mp3info-gtk/setup.hint

category: Audio
requires: libgcc1 libncurses10 
sdesc: "An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor"
ldesc: "MP3Info is a little utility used to read and modify the
ID3 tags of MP3 files. MP3Info can also display various technical
aspects of an MP3 file including playing time, bit-rate, sampling
frequency and other attributes in a pre-defined or user-specifiable
output format."

category: Audio
requires: libgcc1 libglib2.0_0 libgtk2.0_0 
sdesc: "An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor (GTK GUI)"
ldesc: "MP3Info is a little utility used to read and modify the
ID3 tags of MP3 files. MP3Info can also display various technical
aspects of an MP3 file including playing time, bit-rate, sampling
frequency and other attributes in a pre-defined or user-specifiable
output format."
external-source: mp3info

Thanks.

-- 
Filipp Gunbin

Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2014-05-28 18:26, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
> I'd like to maintain mp3info for Cygwin.  It does not have a good build
> system, but it's simple and I somewhat managed it to work.  Besides
> using it as a standalone utility, it can be used in Emacs EMMS (that's
> in fact is why I need it).

Sorry; our policy is to not include MP3 software in the distribution, so 
unfortunately this package cannot be accepted.

I hope you will still consider becoming a maintainer for another 
package.  There are always packages needing new maintainers; these are 
marked as ORPHANED here:

https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint


Yaakov

Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 29/05/2014 21:26 +0400, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:

> On 2014-05-28 18:26, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
>> I'd like to maintain mp3info for Cygwin.  It does not have a good build
>> system, but it's simple and I somewhat managed it to work.  Besides
>> using it as a standalone utility, it can be used in Emacs EMMS (that's
>> in fact is why I need it).
>
> Sorry; our policy is to not include MP3 software in the distribution,
> so unfortunately this package cannot be accepted.
>
> I hope you will still consider becoming a maintainer for another
> package.  There are always packages needing new maintainers; these are
> marked as ORPHANED here:
>
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
>
>
> Yaakov

That's a pity!  No need to say what a huge amount of music is
distributed in mp3 nowadays (that's a pity, too).

Anyway, thanks.

Filipp

Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[David Stacey]

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.

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.

Thanks in advance for clarifying,

Dave.

[1] http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/

Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

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

Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[Filipp Gunbin]

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

Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2014-05-30 18:22, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
> 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).

And that's exactly why we can't allow it.


Yaakov

Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 31/05/2014 04:40 +0400, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:

> On 2014-05-30 18:22, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
>> 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).
>
> And that's exactly why we can't allow it.
>
>
> Yaakov

My final attempt: what if we remove those switches in a cygwin-specific patch?

Filipp

Re: [ITP] mp3info-0.8.5a

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2014-05-31 17:58, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
>> On 2014-05-30 18:22, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> And that's exactly why we can't allow it.
>
> My final attempt: what if we remove those switches in a cygwin-specific patch?

No.


Yaakov