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Re: /usr/bin/id3



On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 22:31, Henrik Johansson wrote:
> 
> > | is there a /usr/bin/id3 equivalent to editing the comments in Ogg
> > | Vorbis files? /usr/bin/vorbiscomment is a pain in the rear to be used
> > | in scripts!
> >
> > How is vorbiscomment such a pain?  It seems rather convenient to me.
> > Just echo the data on it's stdin (name=value pairs) or specify the
> > same name=value pairs with the -t argument.
> 
> I think I had the same problem as Martin when I wrote my rip-encode 
> bash-script for ogg's. When I tried to use the -t argument in a script it 
> behaved very strang. It seemed like the command-line got parsed incorrectly.
> 
> If I let the script echo the vorbiscomment commandline instead of running it, 
> and then ran it manually, the line worked. I didn't report it since I wasn't 
> sure if it was a bug or some bash-feature I didn't understand.
> 
> I then changed my script to generate a file and run a line like:
> 
> vorbiscomment -a $oggfile -c $tagfile
> 
> that worked.

Not sure if this is offtopic here, but EasyTag is a very nice graphical
mp3/ogg tagger. 

apt-get install easytag

It's GTK/GNOME based, so people without those should expect the usual
large pile of dependencies.

Regards

Peter.

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Peter Whysall
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