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Bug 304718 - Wish: bitrate infomation column
Wish: bitrate infomation column
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167659
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.8.8
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-05-19 02:02 UTC by James
Modified: 2006-02-18 05:43 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description James 2005-05-19 02:02:33 UTC
Along with the other columns rhythmbox has, a bitrate column would be a nice option.
Comment 1 James "Doc" Livingston 2005-08-23 15:05:03 UTC
A bitrate column half-exists, but is disabled in the code. I think the reason
for this is that any tracks that is variable bitrate (pretty much people use
these days, apart from CBR mp3s) is reported as "0". At least it used to be; for
some reason by oggs now always report "128 kbs" in the song-info dialog, even
though they're not.

We could probably use (8*filesize/duration) as an approximate average bitrate,
although it will be slightly too high (file-overhead isn't included in bitrate
calculation). Perhaps the column should use that approximation if bitrate=0, and
append a "*" to denote that it is an average. The song-info dialog could report
the bitrate in the form "117 (average)".
Comment 2 James 2005-11-11 22:27:15 UTC
Rhythmbox already reports the bitrate (for CBR and VBR MP3s) if you view the
song's properties - why can't that information be used for the column?
Comment 3 James "Doc" Livingston 2005-11-12 03:38:45 UTC
The patch on bug 167659 adds a "Quality" (bitrate) column, amongst others.
Comment 4 James "Doc" Livingston 2006-02-18 05:43:56 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167659 ***