On Friday 01 September 2006 18:21, sdoma wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:12 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Friday 01 September 2006 17:47, sdoma wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly coded. The
> > > Interpret/Title information is missing for some, other show very ugly
> > > time information in XMMS ( -234567:21, 893767:13 i.e.) but the
> > > frame/duration in the MP3 info is correct.
> > >
> > > Are there any tools (preferred command line) to decode the MP3 (get a
> > > raw audio file, wav or something similar) and in turn to code the MP3
> > > with the proper information?
> >
> > even if there are tools - don't do it.
> >
> > The artist/title info is in the id4 tags - you can edit them with lots of
> > tools, even inside most players. No need to recode them.
> >
> > And recoding: mp3 is a lossy format. If you turn them into wavs you have
> > not only wavs based on reduced information, you remove the stuff that
> > makes mp3 sound 'better' than they are. If you encode them again, you are
> > removing more information.
> >
> > So after such a circle the sound quality would be worse. A lot worse.
> > Hardly bearable worse.
> >
> > Just say no to recoding.
>
> Thanks for the hint.I've wodered about too if I can live with the
> quality loss. I cann say that only if I try.
> Well, I've tried to edit the ID4 within XMMS. I can edit this but
> without changing the file. Saying this : I edit the tag, save it and
> nothing changes.
> Could you point me to some of the "lots of tools" you mentioned?
media-sound/audiotag
Latest version available: 0.15
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 14 kB
Homepage: http://www.tempestgames.com/ryan/
Description: A command-line audio file meta-data tagger. Sets id3 and/or
vorbis tags in mp3, ogg, and flac files.
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/cantus
Latest version available: 20060206
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 400 kB
Homepage: http://www.debain.org/software/cantus/
Description: Easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and
OGG/Vorbis
files
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/choad
Latest version available: 0.822
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 7 kB
Homepage: http://ftso.org/choad/index1.html
Description: a command-line, Perl-based
CD-ripping-ID3-tagging-and-mp3-encoding utility
License: Artistic
* media-sound/cowbell
Latest version available: 0.2.7.1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 1,309 kB
Homepage: http://more-cowbell.org
Description: Elegantly tag and rename mp3/ogg/flac files
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/easytag
Latest version available: 1.99.12
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 3,905 kB
Homepage: http://easytag.sourceforge.net/
Description: EasyTAG mp3/ogg ID3 tag editor
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/id3
Latest version available: 0.12-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 12 kB
Homepage: http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/
Description: changes the id3 tag in an mp3 file
media-sound/id3ed
Latest version available: 1.10.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 92 kB
Homepage: http://www.dakotacom.net/~donut/programs/id3ed.html
Description: ID3 tag editor for mp3 files
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/id3tool
Latest version available: 1.2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 112 kB
Homepage: http://nekohako.xware.cx/id3tool/
Description: A command line utility for easy manipulation of the ID3
tags present in MPEG Layer 3 audio files
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/id3v2
Latest version available: 0.1.11
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 153 kB
Homepage: http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/
Description: A command line editor for id3v2 tags.
License: GPL-2
media-sound/kid3
Latest version available: 0.6
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 2,529 kB
Homepage: http://kid3.sourceforge.net/
Description: A simple ID3 tag editor for QT/KDE.
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/madman [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 0.93
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 1,606 kB
Homepage: http://madman.sourceforge.net/
Description: MP3 organizer/ID3 tag-editor extraordinaire
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/mp3info
Latest version available: 0.8.4-r2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 37 kB
Homepage: http://ibiblio.org/mp3info/
Description: An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
License: GPL-2
* media-sound/musicman
Latest version available: 0.15
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 1,423 kB
Homepage: http://musicman.sourceforge.net/
Description: A Konqueror plugin for manipulating ID3 tags in MP3 files
License: GPL-2
> ... and what about the time information? It is silly to have a 3 minute
> song with shows as days long and even negative duration :( (well, this
> could be an ``unsigned int'' issue.
I don't know how to fix it. But is it really so important? Do you watch the
timing information while listening to the song?
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