TL : DR I'm looking for a way to manipulate (strip, re-write) the tags in an MP3 file from the command line under pCP.
Explanation I've been developing a shell script that takes an LMS playlist and exports the tracks as individual MP3 files for use in the car. 90% of my library is in the form of 'full album' FLAC files with separate CUE files, or individual FLAC tracks, so writing new MP3 files with my own tags is straightforward (sox -> lame). The other 10% is made up of files that I only have in OGG, M4A or MP3. My script has an option to either copy these over unchanged or to transcode them to MP3. For transcoding I'm using sox -> lame for OGG and faad -> lame for M4A, but there's no point in transcoding MP3 to MP3, so these are always copied over unchanged. In all the cases where I use lame to create MP3 files I'm writing a consistent set of tags: Title, Artist, Album and a Comment (to store the 'provenance' of the file). But in the cases where an MP3 file is copied over unchanged, it may have a variety of tags included. So for the sake of consistency I'm interested in stripping the existing tags and writing my own new tags. If I could use lame to write a new MP3 file without transcoding that would be a good option, but I don't think such an option exists. So I think a command line tagger is what I need, and in particular, one that is available under pCP. Does such a tool exist? As a supplementary requirement, I'm hoping that any such tool will also allow me to read the Artist and Album tags from the original file before stripping them out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111997 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
