Suggestion: To replace FFmpeg completely with much lighter weight TagLib and faad2

[ravachol]

I'm porting kew to macOS and it takes forever to install FFmpeg through brew because it compiles everything from source and FFmpeg is enormous. Considering to instead use TagLib and faad2 which are much smaller and would make kew more light weight. Is my thinking sound here? What do you think @xplshn?

[xplshn]

I'm 100% in for this change, FFMpeg-dependency makes kew heavy, it'd be much better to use a lightweight library that is as battle-tested as taglib, as for faad2, I had not heard about it, so I don't have anything more to add.

Would very much appreciate kew having slimmer dependencies :)

[ravachol]

it's small.

[xplshn]

All in for the change then, please make branch specifically for this, and there's no need to rush btw, migrating libraries takes effort, so take it calmly :)

[ravachol]

why a specific branch? I am doing it in develop branch. I don't think the changes required are that big.

[ravachol]

ffmpeg is used for:

1. extracting title artist album year
2. decoding m4a.

it's 5 functions or something like that.

[ravachol]

but yeah I'm going to be careful enough I hope.