EddyGeez
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Posted: Sep. 25 2002,00:17 |
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(I couldn't find any way to do this, so that is why I'm posting this in the "Suggestions" forum.)
More and more of the files I download from Usenet have "Attached image" frames... some of them quite large, 300-400K! This is a big waste of space, since I typically only download "full albums" and don't need 15 copies of the album cover "hiding" inside each MP3 file... I just need one JPEG file in the album directory, thank you very much.
I know I can delete the "Attached image" frame with the awesome Mp3/TS product, but it doesn't actually reduce the amount of space reserved for the ID3v2 tag! i.e. the file size stays the same.
Is there some way to have Mp3/TS actually reduce the ID3v2 padding to some pre-set size (say, "the nearest multiple of 256 bytes" for example)?
If not, I would really like to see that feature added as a checkbox-option to the "Mass cleanup tags" and "Browes/Edit tags & flags" tabs.
(It would be nifty to have a way to "export" individual ID3v2 frames, especially those that contain "Unsupported binary data", so you could save the raw contents of an "Attached image" frame as a file...)
While I'm writing, I'll submit a minor bug:
If you have the "Advanced ID3v2 Info" floater open and you click away to a different directory (because you have "Use explorer browser tree" enabled), the "ID3 tag info" area clears and says "No file selected", but the Advanced ID3v2 Info floater continues to show the data from the last file that was selected. (Don't forget the earlier feature request to have an option make the "Advanced ID3v2 Info" stuff be a standard part of of the "Browse/Edit tags & flags" tab so you don't need the floater. There is plenty of room for this when running at higher resolutions.)
More feature requests:
I'd like to be able to display the Track tag in the shell extension menu, along with the total size of the ID3v2 tag space (the actual tag size, not the in-use size, so it is easy to find MP3's with excessive tag data). I'd also like an option to prevent the "tag data" from being grayed-out to make it easier to read. This would make the items selectable, but no biggie. It could be a "no-op", or do something like copy that tag's contents to the clipboard.
Ideally, the contents of the tag-portion of the "Shell extension" menu would be totally customizable, with an "Edit box" where you could enter something like this:
| Code Sample | Info for file "<Filename>":
<tab><Tag-status><cr>
<tab>Encoding info: <Encoding-info><cr>
<tab>Artist: <Artist><cr>
<tab>Title: <Title><cr>
<tab>Album: <Album><cr>
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to allow the user to configure the shell extension menu to display however much (or little) data as they want in the exact format they want. <Artist> would correspond to the ID3v2 Artist tag if present, and if not, then the ID3v1 tag (if present), where something like <Artist_v2> would only show the ID3v2 Artist tag, even if an ID3v1 Artist tag existed. Obviously this would be the "Advanced" option; the current check-boxes can stay for non-advanced users. 
(Speaking of the "Shell Extension" settings dialog, the placement of the "NOTE:" was confusing, because I thought it corresponded with the "Display file/tag info" checkboxes, when really it is for the two options at the bottom of that tab.)
I just thought of another cool feature. It would be slick if you could save individual "Mass clean-up tags" configurations and give them a name. (Similar to the "Direct tag manipulation" presets.) Then, have an option to display (and execute) those presets from the Shell Extension menu to quickly do something like "Strip the 'Attached image' frame and shrink ID3v2 padding"...
(Speaking of "Direct tag manipulation", it would be slick if the right-hand side had a "REMOVE" option. That would provide another way to save pre-sets to "clean-up" certain tags, like "Attached imaged". )
Magnus, I promise that if you add some of these features, I'll register! 
Edited by EddyGeez on Sep. 25 2002,00:27
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