polyfloyd
add serde support
Sending metadata across systems would be very convenient if the tags support serde. Would you be willing to take a patch like this https://github.com/polyfloyd/rust-id3/compare/main...vauradkar:rust-id3:main ?
I have considered this in the past, but concluded that it would make little sense for a crate that already implements a serialization format.
What is your use case?
Client-server based tag processing. Client doesn't play or process audio. So server doesn't need to load or send entire audio file. serde makes it convenient also in the sense that wire format(bincode, json, toml, etc) is independent of the id3 library.
Hey! Going though some open issues and I see this is still awaiting a verdict.
I will not be adding serde support as that would expose too many of the internals. Serializing to binary id3 and back is the most portable way to do this. You should be able to dump just the tag from the file and send that over to the server