Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.3) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs OS: Linux Hello, and sorry for my poor english Usually you have two ways to set information about the CD you are ripping/encoding : either you enter it manually (which is boring), or you start a CDDB lookup (which works only when you are connected to internet) iTunes has its clever third way : when you rip a CD, you are not connected internet but you probably will in the future. So it remembers in his database which CD was ripped (DISCID, ...), you can later select the files with no tag information, and ask for the infos from the internet. Something like that could work in KDE : KIO_AUDIOCD see it has incomplete information He stores in a hidden file (which name is to be choosen) in the destination directory DISCID=f70db710 TRACK=4 FILENAME="Piste 04.mp3" MD5SUM="072e6c392544ce711379d3d2f0891ee0" where MD5SUM is something like the MD5 of the first 1000 bytes of the MP3/vorbis file, so we can found it even if the file was renamed juK or amaroK (or rhythmbox perhaps) see this file and use it to rename && add a complete ID3 tag to the filename.
How about if no cddb information is found make the album comment the diskid like: CDDBDISCID=f70db710? Then any app could parse it and you wouldn't have some other files floating around. And a users could even manually get the data.
What does amaroK and Juk developers thinks from implementing this idea, that would save many time entering data, and make their app looks so clever ? (that was my first though when I saw this in iTunes) If yes, the solution from commment 1 is far better than mine. Do you have any other requirement ? PS: Should I open another bug for this in amaroK and in juk ?
Yah we should open wish's in juk and amaroK. I'll add it to audiocd and KAudioCreator.