Flac - Sep 2004 - [Flac-users] CD archiving

I have been following flac development for some time now, but with the
release of 1.0.4 I thought I would finally start the task of encoding
my entire cd collection into flac format. After looking through the 
list archives and the webpage I still have a few unanswered questions.

1. What is the best method tagging method to use? Josh mentioned that 
id3v1 was preferred over id3v2 since it didn't mess with the beginning
of the file. However id3v1 has quite a few limitations such as 
restricted length of entries that make it not a very desirable option.
The other option is vorbis-style comments. 

2. Are there any unix programs that can extract an audio cd, encode in
flac and comment it with vorbis comments?

3. Does anyone know of a tool that could also try and find an image of
the cd cover for a given disc and grab it from the net?


Thanks for everyones work on flac,

Jesse W. Hathaway


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--- "Jesse W. Hathaway" <jwhathaw@uiuc.edu>
wrote:
> 1. What is the best method tagging method to use? Josh mentioned that
> id3v1 was preferred over id3v2 since it didn't mess with the
> beginning
> of the file. However id3v1 has quite a few limitations such as 
> restricted length of entries that make it not a very desirable
> option.
> The other option is vorbis-style comments. 
Now that Vorbis comments support is in everywhere (format,
metaflac, plugins) it is the preferred method.

The FLAC spec is neutral towards id3 tags.  Any implementation
may disallow id3 tags and still be FLAC compliant.  The
reference decoders skip them and the plugins read them just
for convenience.
> 2. Are there any unix programs that can extract an audio cd, encode
> in flac and comment it with vorbis comments?
I usually cobble together a script to do what I need.
You can probably get most of the way there with Grip
(http://nostatic.org/grip/)

Josh



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