lnxguru Wrote: > > I have a large number of FLACs and OGGs already tagged but I need to > edit some of these tags. Are there any Linux tag editting tools that > are particularily recommended by the members of this list? One that > uses SS database would be a plus. >
I personally hate all the GUI based tools that are out there, so I wrote my own. Most of the GUI based tools are awkward to use, and every one I've seen only supports a subset of all available tags. Never enough for realistic tagging for Classical music. I've created two tagging methods, one for classical, and one for popular (ie, not classical) music. Both are batch based methods. I edit files containing the tags, and then tag files based on them. For popular music, I just use CDDB/FreeDB files as the tag source. I edit the files which come from freedb.org to contain the tags as I want them, and run a retag script. For classical music, the CDDB format isn't rich enough (not even close), so I developed a format using JSON (Javascript Object Notation, a poor-mans XML, easier to hand edit), and some scripts to deal with them. It's not exactly a tag editor, it's more of a tag writer. Using my tools, the tags in the files are sort of the secondary source, while the data in the CDDB files is the master. I've got a writeup on my website, http://www.koldware.com/SlimStuff. Currently I only use FLAC and MP3, but it should be fairly easy to port the overall structure to support Ogg as well, assuming Perl libraries exist to support it. Eric -- kolding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kolding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21864 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
