Puddletag doesn't see any of my external drives
 

Hi,

I'm trying to use Puddletag for some of my tagging. I had to resort to installing the snap as I couldn't find another way to install on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

I installed and ran it, tried to drag and drop my files into the window. I got a quick blink of something happening then nothing. Tried several more times. Nothing. Tried to manually find my files which are all on an external HDD mounted in FSTAB under /data. But no matter what I do, Puddletag doesn't "see" the /data folder. It sees dev, media, mnt and many others but not data. I don't understand what's happening or going wrong and I don't understand why.

Any thoughts or ideas to point me in the right direction (other than to give up tagging on Linux)? I searched but found no info at all. Thanks so much!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddletag

I've never used that. ffmpeg will write Metadata easy enough.
https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/FFmpeg_Metadata

I've been trying to get this to work and learned that the Snap installs basically sandbox the apps for security not allowing the normal access and connections that would usually be available. There are interfaces (a Snap thing that allows specific connections between the Snap and some other service or location). I've read extensively about it and learned a lot. I've tried to add the correct interfaces. I've gone through the entire list of all possible interfaces to determine which one I need (the removable drives one won't work for me because most of my drives are permanently mounted in /data rather than /media or /mnt, which are the only ones alone with /run/media that the removable-media interface works with). There were a couple of others I found but on ALL of them, including the removable-media one, I get an error stating that it isn't an option on Puddletag. It would appear that the dev is required to offer these as an option, and if they don't, one simply can't use the interfaces at all.

I think I'm supposed to figure out how to install Puddletag in classic mode now. I'm not sure if I have to uninstall and reinstall, starting over or if I can add the flag somehow afterwards. Sheesh, one would think it would be easier to get decent tagging support in Linux. The others software I've tried have been terrible. Disheartening.