More Tags read&writing in VLC (w/ free extensions to Taglib)

[vlc_fan-01]

Is there any plans to extend the tag reading for viewing within VLC under "media information".

Currently WMA, m4a and a few other formats are still not supported due to the limitation of Taglib library not supporting those formats but however there are free,open-source extensions which are available at soureforge such as this one called libtagext

The libtagext library provides extended reading and writing meta tags for several audio files as an extension to Scott Wheeler's "TagLib" library. Included is a command-line tool supporting popular audio formats like mp3, ogg-vorbis, flac, mp4 and asf.

* Ogg-Vorbis,
* MPEG (mp3),
* MP4 (m4a),
* ASF (wma),
* FLAC and
* Ogg-FLAC.

NOTE: The following tag options are only supported by this program.
You can use them only on the audio files mentioned above.

* accompaniment
* arranger
* bpm
* compilation
* composer
* conductor
* copyright
* discsubtitle
* discnumber
* encodedby
* grouping
* lyrics
* musicians
* publisher
* subtitle
* tracknumber

http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/l ... lib-audio/
download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libtagext0/files/

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2917
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2916
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2915
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2913
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2912
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2898
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2831

In VLC the 'extra metadata' tab of media information, is just sitting there empty all the time when it could be showing more id3 v2 tags (especially id3 v2) stuff that is extra found in audio files.

There are users who listen to less contemporary purchased audio that has this info such as 'conductor' and 'composer'

What about using this free extension to have the correct id3 v2 tag reading of 'Publisher' tag in VLC 1.0/1.1 ?