Warning

This is an unofficial attempt at porting Ear Tag to Windows. The binaries were compiled from original sources without any modifications, except for the final eartag-devel.py file. The binaries are untested and most likely have their own shitload of problems, please apologize me for that. Thank you.

Ear Tag for Windows

Small and simple audio file tag editor, on Windows.

About

Ear Tag for Windows is an attempt at making Ear Tag run on Windows.

Modifications

The source code is unmodified.

The output file eartag-devel.py was modified to add environment variables.

# line 20
#...

if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
    bundle_dir = sys._MEIPASS if hasattr(sys, '_MEIPASS') else os.path.dirname(sys.executable)
    _internal = os.path.join(bundle_dir, "_internal") if os.path.exists(os.path.join(bundle_dir, "_internal")) else bundle_dir
    os.environ['GI_TYPELIB_PATH'] = os.path.join(_internal, 'girepository-1.0')
    os.environ['XDG_DATA_DIRS'] = os.path.join(_internal, 'share')
    schema_dir = os.path.join(bundle_dir, 'share', 'glib-2.0', 'schemas')
    os.environ['GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR'] = schema_dir
    if hasattr(os, 'add_dll_directory'):
        os.add_dll_directory(bundle_dir)
    
    print(f"Schema Path: {schema_dir}")
    print(f"Contents: {os.listdir(schema_dir)}")

    if hasattr(os, 'add_dll_directory'):
        os.add_dll_directory(_internal)
        os.add_dll_directory(bundle_dir)

     pkgdatadir = os.path.join(bundle_dir, 'share', 'eartag')
     localedir = os.path.join(bundle_dir, 'share', 'locale')
else:
    raise RuntimeError("This script is only meant to be run as a bundled executable.")

sys.path.insert(1, pkgdatadir)
#...

Dependencies

Ear Tag is written in Python, and uses GTK4 and libadwaita for the UI. The following dependencies are required:

• Python >= 3.8
• GTK4 >= 4.12.0
• libadwaita >= 1.4.0
• pygobject
• pillow (used for some picture operations)
• mutagen (used for file tagging)
• python-magic (used for MIME type detection)
• pyacoustid (used for Identify Selected Files option)

Building

To build Ear Tag for use on Windows, use MSYS2 with GTK 4.0 and all needed dependencies installed.
You'll also need meson and other commands to actually build.

meson output
meson compile -C output
meson install -C output

For development purposes, this is automated in the provided run script.

You'll get a script called eartag-devel.py in your /tmp/eartag/bin folder. Go there.

Compile schemas bullshit (it won't work otherwise):

mkdir -p build/compiled_schemas
cp /C/msys64/mingw64/share/glib-2.0/schemas/*.xml build/compiled_schemas/
cp /C/msys64/tmp/eartag/share/glib-2.0/schemas/*.xml build/compiled_schemas/
glib-compile-schemas build/compiled_schemas/

Of course, change /C/msys64/ to your MSYS2 installation path.

Then, install pyinstaller to convert all of it to a single EXE:

pip install pyinstaller --break-system-packages

Now, make an EXE with this command: (replace C:/msys64/mingw64/ with your MSYS2 installation path, you can get the SVG icon in data folder and then convert to ICO, or just remove that line)

pyinstaller --noconfirm --clean --onedir --noconsole \
  --icon="app.drey.EarTag.Devel.ico" \
  --collect-submodules aiofiles \
  --collect-submodules PIL \
  --collect-all gi \
  --collect-submodules xxhash \
  --collect-submodules filetype \
  --collect-submodules mutagen \
  --collect-all uuid \
  --add-data "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/girepository-1.0;girepository-1.0" \
  --add-data "C:/msys64/tmp/eartag/share/eartag;share/eartag" \
  --add-data "build/compiled_schemas;share/glib-2.0/schemas" \
  --add-data "C:/msys64/mingw64/share/icons;share/icons" \
  --add-binary "C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/libadwaita-1-0.dll;." \
  --add-binary "C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/libgraphene-1.0-0.dll;." \
  --add-binary "C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/libgtk-4-1.dll;." \
  eartag-devel.py

At the end you're supposed to have a eartag-devel folder in dist/ folder!