GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 143379
Making metadata more visible, adding columns, ...
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:52:10 UTC
Description of Problem: Currently, in order to get information from an ID3 tag from an MP3, it's necessary to right-click on an MP3, open up the file properties, go to Audio/Video (or Audio...there's duplicate information there but that's another bug), and then check out the song title, artist, etc... While this works, it's quite awkward. And considering that Sound Juicer (arguably the primary cd ripper for the Gnome D&DP) defaults to a filename format of /Artist/Album/Track# - Track Name.mp3, this can become a serious problem if you remove large numbers of files from the /Artist/Album path. A very good example of this is my MP3 player. Generally when I'm deciding what stays on the playlist and what goes, I tend to get very confused as to what songs I'm looking at. I propose that some sort of alternative method to access ID3 tag information from MP3s and Ogg Vorbis files be implemented. The handy sidebar doesn't seem to exist anymore...perhaps a mouseover info box? Alternatively, add the option to display Artist / Song title info instead of the filename when navigating a directory? I'm open to suggestions, but either way this really should be changed.
It would be nice as an option. If the option is checked, it shows ID3-tags instead of filenames for MP3/OGG-files ...
I agree entirely that nautilus' handling of audio file metadata is very poor. I was going to file this same bug until I saw it already existed.
I was wondering if this had already been suggested, I'm glad to see it has. I'm a little disappointed on the other hand to see that the initial problem description still applies perfectly 6 years later and that the last comment was posted 4 years ago. Onto the subject, it would be great if audio metadata (ID3 / Vorbis comments) could be selected as a visible column for folder view. Better yet, if a folder contains ogg, mp3, flac, etc. files Nautilus should automatically show some of the metadata (potentially artist, title, year and especially bitrate). Any hope on this ? :)
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