From: TP Diffenbach <rockbox_at_diffenbach.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:59:22 -0500

Patch has been added to sourceforge rockbnox patches.


Patches item #706111, was opened at 2003-03-19 09:26
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Category: id3
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Thomas Paul Diffenbach (tpdiffenbach)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: id3 freeform genre & composer; cleaner code

Initial Comment:
Added freefrorm genre and composer to supported id3v2 tags.

Removed repeated code and hardcoded id3 tags from the
setid3v2title function to an array of structures. This
allows new id3 tags to be added by simply adding an
entry to an array, without modifying the code as such.
(For those keeping score, this is Meyer's "Open-Closed"
principle.) Of course, wpd-display.c must also be
modified for teh tag to be recognized by the wps system.

All tags are treated as strings, rather than as ints.
Converting string to ints means the ints must be
re-converted to strings for display. This adds code and
runtime costs for both conversions. Keeping the tag a
string uses some memory, but the memory is statically
allocated anyway. Where the original code performed the
conversions to int (genre, year, and tracknum), these
conversions are still performed for backwards
compatibility (via post-processing functions).

String tags also allow for cases where a number won't
do, e.g., YEAR: "circa 1765", "1790/1977"
(composed/performed), "28 Feb 1969"; TRACK: "1/12", "1
of 12"; GENRE: "Freeform genre name".


The structure used to identify tags and the mp3entry
member which points to the tag is:

struct id3TagResolver {
    const char* tag;
    int tag_length ;
    size_t offset ;
    tagPostProcessFunc ppFunc ;
} ;

tag is the id3v2 tag, tag_length is its length (as
strlen would return), offset is the offset of a char*
in struct mp3entry that will point to the tag data,
ppFunc is an optional (pointer to) function that will
post-process the recovered tag. Note that all members
can be resolved at compile time, so the code space and
runtime needed for calling strlen is no longer needed.

To recover id3 tags, the array tagList is iterated for
each id3 header, and if found, the char* at offset is
pointed to a copy of the tag in struct
mp3entry.id3v2buf. Multiple tags may reference the same
pointer in mp3entry; following the original id3 code,
only the first found is retained.

To add a new tag, add a char* to mp3entry, and an entry
to tagList as in the example below:

struct id3TagResolver tagList[] = {
    { "TPE1", sizeof( "TPE1" ) - 1, offsetof( struct
mp3entry, artist ), NULL },
    { "TP1", sizeof( "TP1" ) - 1, offsetof( struct
mp3entry, artist ), NULL },

Note that both of the above tags set mp3entry.artist.
If the id3 data contains both a "TPE1" and a "TP1" tag,
the first found will be used.

The post-processing function pointer is called if it is
not NULL; it can re-arrange the string saved in
mp3Entry, increasing the string's size to the extent of
the remaining buffer space, or truncating it entirely.
It must only return the offset within
mp3entry.id3v2buff of the first free byte. See the
function ppGenre for an example.




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>Comment By: Linus Nielsen Feltzing (linusnielsen)
Date: 2003-03-19 09:54

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Sounds pretty cool. It would be even cooler if you attached

the patch.

:-)

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