On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 18:37 -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote:
I am trying to convert a MP3 file from 320k to 128k using lame.
However, the new file is missing all the ID3 tags. Is this a deficiency
in lame or is there some switch that I can use? If the former, is there
another Linux/Open Source command line encoder that will do the job?
No, Lame chops off the tags when doing what you are doing - search the
archives for my first posting to this list a few months ago because
you'll see that I joined this list with exactly the same question that
you asked and got some replies that may be of use :-0. One of the
developers (I think) replied that it would be a security risk to
preserve the id3 tags so it was deliberately not implemented - or some
such. See the archive.
No one on this list was able to give an _easy_ way out, at the time, but
I posted it on my local Linux user group and one guy helpfully wrote a
script that he said would do the job of extracting the id3 and copying
it back in after downsampling. If you want I can post a link to his
script. If not, that is what you have to do - extract the id3 and copy
it back after downsampling each file. A real PIB :-(
On the bright side, the script mentioned supposedly does batches of
files, not just one at a time, and there are scripts to downsample
batches of files too (just not remembering them at the moment).
Regards, Gavin
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