[REQ] yet another wdxaudio plugin

[XPEHOPE3KA]

I have three now and use all of them together:
AudioInfo - because it's very fast;
AnyTag - because it supports more formats (mp4, wv, etc);
MP3info - because it distinguishes ID3v1 and v2 tags and can show me an extremely customizeable popup tip.

However, all of them have their own bugs or inconviniences:

AudioInfo doesn't show bitrate of FLACs, doesn't recognize id3 in *.ape files, etc...
MP3Info is extremely customizeable but only through 10 patterns - no more! And it lacks documentation, its scripting language, AFAIC, doesn't allow comparison (i.e. ?(%TIT[1]==%TIT[2])... - doesn't work), it works only with mp3 and wma, joint stereo+vbr=wrong time etc...
AnyTag will not distinguish id3v1 and id3v2, and doesn't allow as customizeable popup tip control as MP3Info does.

So, maybe, one can combine all the best of these plugins into one? It seems that AnyTag is more likely to be easily extended - it only lacks tags' distinguishing and scripting language.

[majkinetor !]

You are funny

[icfu]

Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase, someone develop a new file manager! All file managers I know are not perfect.

Ah well, before you haven't asked at least all three plugin authors to implement your wishes and post their answers here, I don't support that request.

Icfu

[Alextp]

However, all of them have their own bugs or inconviniences:

AudioInfo doesn't show bitrate of FLACs, doesn't recognize id3 in *.ape files, etc...

I'm the author of AudioInfo.
It _supports_ ID3 tags in APE files. If you found that it doesn't, send me the sample of such APE file, I'll try to see where is the problem.

About your wishes:
1. it will show bitrate in FLAC.
2. it will support many other formats such as DTS, WV, OFR etc.
What else do you want?

[XPEHOPE3KA]

Yeah, I did a mistake - it doesn't support ape tags in mp3s.
BTW, XPEHOPE3KA here, funduk there

What I want - see MP3Info. It comes with C++ sources.
There's some kind of programming language there. You can write

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?%ID3[1]:(Artist: %ART[1])

and it will show you artist field of id3v1 tag. See ini file for more examples. So I need that language to be enhanced to have comparisons and to show more fields (I particularly need Encoder, Description, AlbumArtist - just because they usually contain "useless" data). Of course, if audioinfo will support not only %ID3[1,2] but also %FLAC etc. that will be really nice.

[Alextp]

Yeah, I did a mistake - it doesn't support ape tags in mp3s.

I think in next version (2.0) AudioInfo will support APE tags in MP3.

Programming language - is not planned. What for is it, for displaying separately ID3v1 and ID3v2 and APE tags? But this is needed rarely, display of one tag ("higher": APE>ID3v2, ID3v2>ID3v1) is enought for most of users...

[XPEHOPE3KA]

Yeah, for *most* users .
However, I can live without it, but I can't without mentioned fields and full FLAC support.