Vorbis - Mar 2007 - Q: Tool to copy Vorbis comments to MP3 ID tags

Hi,

I'm wondering: If you have audio files like foo1.ogg and foo1.mp3, and the
Vorbis
file has nice comments (title, tracknumber, artist, album, date, etc), is there
a
tool to copy the information to an MP3 file on a "best effort"
strategy?

I know that MP3 TAGs are quite limited regarding lengths.

Regards,
Ulrich

On 8 Mar 2007 at 16:55, Pandu E Poluan wrote:
> foobar2000
Actually I was thinking about a command-line tool (scriptable), because the
files
to update are more than 600. 

Regards,
Ulrich

> 
> On 3/8/07, Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wondering: If you have audio files like foo1.ogg and foo1.mp3,
and the
> > Vorbis
> > file has nice comments (title, tracknumber, artist, album, date, etc),
is
> > there a
> > tool to copy the information to an MP3 file on a "best
effort" strategy?
> >
> > I know that MP3 TAGs are quite limited regarding lengths.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ulrich
> >
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> >
>

Hi,

here is a script in bash that will run on cygwin or linux that do it. It 
need the application metaflac and id3v2. It take two parameter, the 
first one is the flac file and the second is the mp3 file.

Hope this help

Fr?d?ric Bastien
---begin after this line---
#!/bin/bash

SOURCE=$1
OUTF=$2

ID3=id3v2
ARTIST=`metaflac "$SOURCE" --show-tag=ARTIST | sed s/.*=//g`
TITLE=`metaflac "$SOURCE" --show-tag=TITLE | sed s/.*=//g`
ALBUM=`metaflac "$SOURCE" --show-tag=ALBUM | sed s/.*=//g`
GENRE=`metaflac "$SOURCE" --show-tag=GENRE | sed s/.*=//g`
TRACKNUMBER=`metaflac "$SOURCE" --show-tag=TRACKNUMBER | sed s/.*=//g`
TRACKTOTAL=`metaflac "$SOURCE" --show-tag=TRACKTOTAL | sed s/.*=//g`
YEAR=`metaflac "$SOURCE" --show-tag=DATE | sed s/.*=//g | cut -b -4`

if test "x$TITLE" != "x"; then
     $ID3 --song="$TITLE" "$OUTF" > /dev/null
fi

if test "x$TRACKNUMBER" != "x"; then
     $ID3 --track="$TRACKNUMBER" "$OUTF" > /dev/null
fi

if test "x$TRACKTOTAL" != "x"; then
     $ID3 -T "$TRACKTOTAL" "$OUTF" > /dev/null
fi

if test "x$ARTIST" != "x"; then
     $ID3 --artist="$ARTIST" "$OUTF" > /dev/null
fi

if test "x$ALBUM" != "x"; then
     $ID3 --album="$ALBUM" "$OUTF" > /dev/null
fi

if test "x$GENRE" != "x"; then
     $ID3 --genre="$GENRE" "$OUTF" > /dev/null
fi

if test "x$YEAR" != "x"; then
     $ID3 -year="$YEAR" "$OUTF" > /dev/null
fi