On 10/15/2009 01:30 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:08 AM, John H. Robinson, IV <[email protected]> wrote: >> Carl Lowenstein wrote: >>> I have some mp3 files, classical music, for which the embedded tags >>> are not necessarily representative of the actual content. Is there a >>> preferred software application for changing these tags? >> >> I like the command line tools, such as mp3info and id3v2. > > Is there a neat way to use id3v2 to transfer the tags from one mp3 > file to another? I am thinking of repairing the tag truncation done > by Audacity, by transplanting the tags from the original file to its > processed copy. > > As a side question, some of the tags have non-ASCII characters in > them, and "id3v2 -l" shows them as an unprintable glyph. Sort of a > vertical black hexagon with a ? inside.
<side issue comment> Could that actually be a black diamond with a question mark? If so, that would be the unicode character U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER .. Notes: • used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode (see gucharmap, "Specials") > > The GUI EasyTag seems to know how to represent these characters on screen. > Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
