It would be nice to be able to use a simple interface to tag tracks ready to insert into the master desutunes library, rather than having to edit random ID3 tags and get the right ones and not forget any.
To do this robustly would require creating a clean library on startup, then serialising the database state to e.g. JSON and bundling that up with the original audio to send over as a single file.
Editing the file metadata directly isn't great because different formats have different fields so would have to be treated specially, and desutunes modified files would need to be distinguished from manually tagged files. Plus less flexibility in what fields could be added. Also editing the audio file risks corruption; current strategy doesn't touch them at all so is safer.
It would be nice to be able to use a simple interface to tag tracks ready to insert into the master desutunes library, rather than having to edit random ID3 tags and get the right ones and not forget any.
To do this robustly would require creating a clean library on startup, then serialising the database state to e.g. JSON and bundling that up with the original audio to send over as a single file.
Editing the file metadata directly isn't great because different formats have different fields so would have to be treated specially, and desutunes modified files would need to be distinguished from manually tagged files. Plus less flexibility in what fields could be added. Also editing the audio file risks corruption; current strategy doesn't touch them at all so is safer.