So I've just ripped my entire 600 CD collection to flac format (200gigs worth) with vorbis comments in the flac metadata. But my gripe is that neither Winamp nor XMMS's flac plug-ins seem to have the ability to read the vorbis comment from the metadata. Are there any flac players for windoze or linux that can access the metadata? Or do i have to add redundant ID3 tags to all my flac files? If the latter is my only option, are there any tools or scripts out there to read the flac metadata comments and add measly ID3 tags? thanks, brent... --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20031015/51a45f77/attachment.html
--- "Brent A. Musat" <brentmusat@yahoo.com> wrote:> So I've just ripped my entire 600 CD collection to flac format > (200gigs worth) with vorbis comments in the flac metadata. But my > gripe is that neither Winamp nor XMMS's flac plug-ins seem to have > the ability to read the vorbis comment from the metadata. Are there > any flac players for windoze or linux that can access the metadata? > Or do i have to add redundant ID3 tags to all my flac files? If the > latter is my only option, are there any tools or scripts out there to > read the flac metadata comments and add measly ID3 tags?both the plugins read vorbis comments; they should actually form a union of id3 and vorbis comments, preferring vorbis comments, then id3v2, then id3v1, on the intersection. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:42:26PM -0700, Brent A. Musat wrote:> So I've just ripped my entire 600 CD collection to flac format > (200gigs worth) with vorbis comments in the flac metadata. But my > gripe is that neither Winamp nor XMMS's flac plug-ins seem to have the > ability to read the vorbis comment from the metadata. Are there any > flac players for windoze or linux that can access the metadata?check out http://www.rhythmbox.org/ its a player for gnome2, although i don't think that you need the full gnome setup to use it.> Or do i have to add redundant ID3 tags to all my flac files? If the > latter is my only option, are there any tools or scripts out there to > read the flac metadata comments and add measly ID3 tags?if you don't want to use that, it shouldn't be very difficult to write a script. i'm in the process of converting my id3v2 tagged flac to vc :) ben
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, benny k. wrote:> check out http://www.rhythmbox.org/Rhythmbox seems to think my ID3-tagged FLACs are MP3s, and can't play them. I ripped those with grip. The ones I ripped with abcde seem to work. Do you have any knowledge as to which FLAC metadata it supports, and how to move all of my .flac-file metadata into that format? (You mentioned that you were converting in some direction; maybe you could pass along that script?) Thanks! -- Asheesh. -- But I always fired into the nearest hill or, failing that, into blackness. I meant no harm; I just liked the explosions. And I was careful never to kill more than I could eat. -- Raoul Duke