URL tag Ideas

[Dr.Flay]

How about using the URL metatag for something ?

eg. right or double click option for the artwork to open the URL if present.
If present, added to the info panel.

If the URL tag contains an RSS link, then use that to populate the info panel.
That way people can add the news feeds from the relevant band site or blog.

When downloading podcasts auto-add the feed URL to the metatag PODCASTURL.
Then when setting up on a fresh system for example, your old podcast collection can be used to repopulate the podcast section.
This could either be a tick box set for use during scanning your media as normal, or as an "Import Podcasts" option. eg. available when you right click on the root Podcast icon
This would help sync things for people that use multiple PCs with an external drive.

[dro]

Will come back to this when I've got more general control over how tagging works as the majority of podcast feeds are using formats in the input plug-ins that I've not yet touched (due to them being key parts of how winamp/wacup needs to work for not only tagging of those files but key streaming & other features).

-dro

[Dr.Flay]

I have yet to come across a non-MP3 podcast, but I get your point.
Better to try something like this when tagging is compliant for the supported formats.
Yeah could be a wise thing indeed.

[dro]

A fair number of mine are m4a/mp4 (usually so they can have the album art change as the mix plays) so along with the mp3 ones, the plug-ins which currently do the tagging for that either need to be replaced or I just patch out the tag handling as needed (not simple as there's the streaming & other custom aspects from what I remember that I don't want to break without doing more research).

-dro