After playing a bit with gst-launch, I found out that it can convert music files and keeps the tags. Therefore, I think it would be great to rewrite dir2ogg using gstreamer (the python bindings). This version of dir2ogg will be much much smaller, and is really easy to extend. It will also support multiple output formats and does not need to know about the input files (use -i ‘SHELL PATTERN’ to include other files). ... Read more 》

After the trouble with swfdec and gstreamer, I found out the source of the issue (the fluendo mp3 plugin, see below), and can now use swfdec with gstreamer. Warning: Do not use the mp3 plugin from fluendo.com swfdec does not always work with the binary mp3 plugin from fluendo.com, at least not in Ubuntu 8.04 64bit. It works with the version shipped in Ubuntu (gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3) and with the mad plugin in gstreamer0. ... Read more 》