Bug 201479

Summary: [PATCH] show channel mode of audio tracks
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Pascal Pollet <pascal>
Component: Metadata Editing and ReadingAssignee: Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: this is the patch to display the channel mode

Description Pascal Pollet 2009-07-25 19:24:24 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.98)
Compiler:          gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

since amarok exists, I missed the ability to display the channel mode of an audio track: if it's stereo, joint stereo, mono, etc... I really think that a media player like amarok should be able to provide this info. XMMS does this since ever ;) I made this very small patch, which adds this information to the "summary" tab of the "track details" window.

The information is retrieved on the fly when it is accessed in the dialog (using the TagLib library) instead of being stored in the database. It would maybe be worth discussing if this info should be stored in the database, in order for example to be able to display it in the playlist. But this would imply much greater changes to the sources and also rebuilding of the database...

It should work for alle filetypes supported by TagLib.
Comments are appreciated!

Pascal
Comment 1 Pascal Pollet 2009-07-25 19:25:42 UTC 
Created attachment 35630 [details]
this is the patch to display the channel mode
Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-01-07 11:22:06 UTC 
Pascal, could you please make a merge request on http://gitorious.org/amarok, so the developers can review your patch?
Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-01 11:16:59 UTC 
Any news on this? Pascal, please submit your patch as requested in comment #2
Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-06-26 20:23:52 UTC 
The place to submit a patch is now http://reviewboard.git.org. You will need an identity on http://identity.kde.org. Please submit this ASAP as we enter feature freeze on July 3rd.