Taglib errors/warnings

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I'm using the c bindings for taglib 1.6.3. When opening a file with taglib_file_new, messages are printed to stderr. How can I control and use these messages? In particular, I would like to catch and handle some of the errors, and secondly I want to TURN OFF the verbose logging to stderr.

Lukáš Lalinský · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-15T19:08:49.867

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Unfortunately, you can't catch them, but if you compile TagLib in release mode (cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release), the messages won't be printed.

edited May 15 '11 at 19:08

answered May 15 '11 at 10:03

Lukáš Lalinský

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Thanks I'm about to try this. I added taglib straight from the repositories with apt-get. Why is the default mode debug mode instead of release mode? – jmilloy May 17 '11 at 02:29
I don't know, that's just how CMake does this by default. – Lukáš Lalinský May 17 '11 at 17:03

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '11 at 10:10

You could effectively hide the error messages by reopen:ing stderr. If you want to silence it totally, you could redirect it to some kind of null device or internal log file. Otherwise, I guess that you would need to filter them out.

Another approach would be to modify taglib itself, which should work as the source is provided.

Taglib errors/warnings

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