Description: please compile rhythmbox with tag editing support. This can be enabled by passing --enable-tag-writing to configure.
Assigning to package. package-review is not the appropriate place for this.
This could be done if gstreamer-plugins-good >= 0.10.4 was installed it has support for ID3v2 tag editing. Tag editing/viewing of ID3v2 files works even if MP3 playback is not present, so it can work without gstreamer-plugins-{ugly,bad} (which can't be shipped with Fedora for patent reasons). OGG tag editing is enabled in rhythmbox but won't work until upstream gstreamer enables it the gstreamer-plugins-base package, see http://bugs.gnome.org/335635. It certainly wouldn't harm anything to enable it.
John, can you look at this ?
Alex, what exactly should I expect to see ? I have built a rhythmbox with --enable-tag-writing, but the entries in the Properties dialog for songs are still not editable. I have tried it for both oggs and mp3s
I tell you one thing: Ubuntu in base form is provided as is Fedora (no patent-loaded packages by default). And if I install appropriate plugins (gstreamer-plugins-{ugly,bad}, maybe gstreamer-ffmpeg) everything just works. Tag editing, nautilus sound preview (Fedora only do this for ogg files, even if gstreamer-plugins-{ugly,bad} is installed). So, why Fedora cannot handle these things as smoothly as Ubuntu does? Don't forget these twos are patent-free distros in the same way.
I don't unserstand your comment Pavel. No one said we weren't working on getting tag editing working. I enabled tag editing in the latest rhythmbox however I belive that ogg or flac tag editing is not currently in gstreamer (http://www.mail-archive.com/rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org/msg02900.html) so that is not going to work until it is.
Please do not refer to my comment #5, I just misconceived the comment #2. I take back my previous words. So, when you enabled the tag editing in the recent rhythmbox builds, my comment #5 losts its sense now. Forget it, please. But my question #2 still stands: Why does not the Nautilus's sound preview for MP3 files work? Notice: I've installed gstreamer-plugins-{ugly,bad}. Maybe should I fill a new bug report?
Yes, please file separate bugs for separate issues. John, can we close this bug now ?