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Idea #119: Nautilus in Gnome with an option to manage music files

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #5211: More details about files in nautilus list view.
Written by Fabian the 28 Feb 08 at 18:17. Category: Multimedia. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
In other operatings systems (for example: windows) the file browser can manage music files by the ID3 tags (in MP3 or WMA, etc...). So I can sort my music files by Artist name, or Song name.
In Nautilus i can't find a way to see the ID3, or sort the music files by artist or song.
That option will be great in the Gnome's file browser.

COMPLEMENT:

This is a idea that was reported as a duplicate, but is better to call it: complement :)

User: Computx

Currently There are only 2 ways to list files in the default file manager (nautilus). View as icons or view as list.
The list view is quite limited. if I want to see meta data for my files I have to right click each file and choose properties, then click the appropriate tab such as audio for mp3s. it would be much nicer to have a column for mp3 id tags or image display size for example under the list mode or possibly even a 3rd mode just for displaying meta data. I believe KDE's file manager has that data readily available. Gnome should as well.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #119
Written by Fabian the 28 Feb 08 at 18:17.
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fsamuels wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 03:49
In addition to using MP3 ID3 tags, I think we need other meta data accessible in Natilus. I really want to be able to view some of the EXIF data of my photos and sort by that data.

fsamuels wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 05:58
I marked the duplicates the wrong way. I think the idea #1045: "Nautilus: support file metadata in alternate view modes" should be the primary as it includes metadata for not just MP3s but also images, video, documents, etc. This is a feature I really miss from Windows.

SchwarzeKrause wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 23:35
Hm. This one could be great. ID3v1->ID3v2 converting, MusicBrainz integrating would also be great as contextual actions for Nautilus

cornelius wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 06:28
@gnome/ubuntu devs:
How about incorporating something like this?
http://njpatel.blogspot.com/2007/02/nautilus-metadata-love-at-first-sight.html

Fabian wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 18:14
Cornelius: it looks nice, is close, but is not the idea. The idea is the ability to see that meta-data in the "list mode" because now we only can see a few fields of meta-data that are not very useful to manage multimedia files like music files or picture files.


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