How can I enable m4a editing in EasyTag

[darkscot]

For some reason (licencing?) the m4a editing is disabled in EasyTag. Does anyone know how to enable it?

[PabloTwo]

I gave it shot this morning.

I downloaded the easytag-2.1.7 source code from here, and (attempted to) compile it using the libraries available from Fedora and RPMFusion repos. Running ./configure gave me this:

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Configuration for easytag 2.1.7 :
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Source code location ....: .
Host System Type ........: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Preprocessor ............: gcc
Compiler ................: gcc -g -O2 -Wall
Linker ..................: gcc -lwavpack -lm -lmp4v2 -lz -lstdc++ -lid3 -lid3tag -lFLAC -lm -lspeex -lm -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -logg -lm
GTK2 version ............: 2.24.8
MP3 file support ........: yes
ID3v2.3 tags support ....: yes (id3lib-3.8.3)
Ogg Vorbis file support .: yes
Speex file support ......: yes
FLAC file support .......: yes (flac-1.2.1)
MP4 file support ........: no
WavPack support .........: yes
NLS/gettext .............: yes
Install path ............: /usr/local
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I then uninstalled the libmp4v2 and libmp4v2-devel rpm packages that came from the Fedora repos, downloaded the mp4v2-2.0.0 source code tarball from here, compiled and installed it. Then ran ./configure again on the easytag package. This time I got:

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Configuration for easytag 2.1.7 :
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Source code location ....: .
Host System Type ........: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Preprocessor ............: gcc
Compiler ................: gcc -g -O2 -Wall
Linker ..................: gcc -lwavpack -lm -lmp4v2 -lz -lstdc++ -lid3 -lid3tag -lFLAC -lm -lspeex -lm -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -logg -lm
GTK2 version ............: 2.24.8
MP3 file support ........: yes
ID3v2.3 tags support ....: yes (id3lib-3.8.3)
Ogg Vorbis file support .: yes
Speex file support ......: yes
FLAC file support .......: yes (flac-1.2.1)
MP4 file support ........: yes
WavPack support .........: yes
NLS/gettext .............: yes
Install path ............: /usr/local
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But my enthusiasm was short lived when "make" coughed up several errors that I really am not sure how to deal with.

I tried also doing a rpmbuild of the Fedora SRPM easytag package (minor edit needed to the spec file due to "libmp4v2-devel" package now being absent), and was able to build the package, install it, but that didn't work either. I didn't see what "configure" reported during that rpm package build as it flew by too fast. Also, I didn't look into what the several patch files in the easytag SRPM package were doing....maybe one of them was disabling using mp4 (?).

Notes: In order to get m4a support, "libmp4v2 => 1.9.1" is needed, but Fedora's libmp4v2 packages are only 1.5.0.1. From the easytag SRPM spec file:

#BuildRequires: libmp4v2-devel >= 1.9.0
BuildRequires: libmp4v2-devel

..and from the %changelog section of the spec file:

* Wed Feb 8 2012 Matthias Saou <matthias@saou.eu> 2.1.7-0.1
- Update to 2.1.7 git snapshot.
- Remove upstreamed patches.
- Cosmetic spec file updates.
- Require libmp4v2 >= 1.9.1 to still get mp4 tagging support, see #620531.

[RupertPupkin]

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

But my enthusiasm was short lived when "make" coughed up several errors that I really am not sure how to deal with.

Can you post the errors here? It might be something that's easy to fix.

[PabloTwo]

Hi Rupert- Yes, but currently I have uninstalled the mp4v2-2.0.0 files and re-installed the Fedora libmp4v2-*-1.5.0.1 files. However, running "make" using the Fedora libmpv4-devel-1.5.0.1 package with the easytag source code package gives no errors... it' compiles fine. Just no .m4a file support.

When I get a bit of time to play with this again I'll re-install the mp4v2-2.0.0 files and post the results of make. I have the mp4v2-2.0.0 installed to a local $HOME directory tree, so it's easy just to copy over the *.h, *.so* and executable files to the appropriate locations under /, create the proper symlinks for the .so's, run ldconfig and I'm good to go.

---------- Post added at 09:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:52 PM ----------

OK.. I made the time right after posting the above. Here is what make spits out at the end:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\"/usr/share/easytag\"    -g -O2 -Wall -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12   -MT mp4_header.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/mp4_header.Tpo -c -o mp4_header.o mp4_header.c
mp4_header.c: In function ‘Mp4_Header_Read_File_Info’:
mp4_header.c:207:5: error: too many arguments to function ‘MP4Read’
/usr/local/include/mp4v2/file.h:331:15: note: declared here
mp4_header.c:221:9: error: too few arguments to function ‘MP4Close’
/usr/local/include/mp4v2/file.h:56:6: note: declared here
mp4_header.c:246:5: error: too few arguments to function ‘MP4Close’
/usr/local/include/mp4v2/file.h:56:6: note: declared here
make[3]: *** [mp4_header.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/src/easytag-2.1.7/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/src/easytag-2.1.7/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/src/easytag-2.1.7'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[darkscot]

On my laptop I run Mandriva 2012 and EasyTag on that has m4a support enabled. I wonder if the Mandriva RPM would work on Fedora?

---------- Post added at 11:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:11 AM ----------

Originally Posted by darkscot

I wonder if the Mandriva RPM would work on Fedora?

No, it doesn't!

However, the good news is that the RPM from here:

http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm...?query=easytag

does have m4a enabled!

The one I used was:

easytag-2.1.6-9.fc17.x86_64.rpm