On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote:> So there are no command line options like in oggenc to do artist and > misc tags? Sure if you've got a solution that I don't have to do from > scratch then post away! :-)the patch is located below. i have already submitted it to the author. http://www.bagu.org/flac.html i have also made a utility to calculate the discid of flac files so that files that don't have id-tags, what whatever tags become the standard, can be added with cddb. right now its a giant hack on meta-flac but it works. if ppl are interested i will clean it up. i'm still working on the "tagger" script that is based on abcde and uses this flac-discid thing so i have not posted any of that stuff. as far as the id-tags thing goes, i use id3v2 tags because flac is supposed to be streamable. thus it only makes sense to put the tags at the beginning of the file so that software can read the tags at the start of playing the streaming song (of course i haven't seen any streaming software that supports flac yet, but just in case something comes up :) id3v2 and id3v1 are just slapped on the beginning and end respectively. so if you ever what to get rid of them, its a simple process. but what do it know :) ben> > Thanks! > Chris > > benny k. wrote: > > >hi chris, > > > >On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:22:06AM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote: > > > >>Hey all..I'm brand new to FLAC and learning to use it. Can somebody tell > >>me how to insert things such as Artist, album etc. into the FLAC file? > >>I'd like to do this at encode time via the command line. > >> > > > >as far as i know you can't. you have to use id3v1 or id3v2 tags. if you > >using linux i have made a patch for abcde, a command line ripper/encoder w/ > >cddb and id3 support. if you want it, i can make it available. its just a > >shell script so it may work with other unix as well. > > > >let me know and i'll put it on my web page. > > > >ben > > > > -- > HAM AND EGGS A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flac-users mailing list > Flac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-users
So there are no command line options like in oggenc to do artist and misc tags? Sure if you've got a solution that I don't have to do from scratch then post away! :-) Thanks! Chris benny k. wrote:>hi chris, > >On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:22:06AM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote: > >>Hey all..I'm brand new to FLAC and learning to use it. Can somebody tell >>me how to insert things such as Artist, album etc. into the FLAC file? >>I'd like to do this at encode time via the command line. >> > >as far as i know you can't. you have to use id3v1 or id3v2 tags. if you >using linux i have made a patch for abcde, a command line ripper/encoder w/ >cddb and id3 support. if you want it, i can make it available. its just a >shell script so it may work with other unix as well. > >let me know and i'll put it on my web page. > >ben >-- HAM AND EGGS A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.
Ok so I can use any ID3v2 or v1 tagger (say the perl one) for FLAC files and things will be kosher? I'd LOVE to be able roll my own tagging scheme like you can in Vorbis and I don't mind doing some code either..I wasn't aware that FLAC was able to do that..or at least I didn't userstand how to do that. I guess that is where you register for your own developer ID eh? Josh Coalson wrote:>--- Chris Hirsch <chris@base2technology.com> wrote: > >>So there are no command line options like in oggenc to do artist and >>misc tags? Sure if you've got a solution that I don't have to do from >>scratch then post away! :-) >> > >I think that uses vorbis tags. FLAC doesn't specify a tagging >system. You have three choices: > >1) use id3v1 or v2 (preferably v1 since that has better support >and doesn't mess with the beginning of the file, and apps that >support FLAC may still choke on the v2 tag) > >2) write your own custom tags into a custom FLAC metadata block >(will require some coding on your part still) > >3) hope that I get vorbis-style tags into a new FLAC metadata >block in your time frame :) > >#1 sounds like the best bet for you now, and there are lots of >little programs that will do id3 tag management on existing >files (like id3ren). > >#3 will happen but not for a couple of months. I'm _real_ >busy lately. > >Josh > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage >http://sports.yahoo.com/ >-- Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. --Timothy Jones
--- Chris Hirsch <chris@base2technology.com> wrote:> So there are no command line options like in oggenc to do artist and > misc tags? Sure if you've got a solution that I don't have to do from > scratch then post away! :-)I think that uses vorbis tags. FLAC doesn't specify a tagging system. You have three choices: 1) use id3v1 or v2 (preferably v1 since that has better support and doesn't mess with the beginning of the file, and apps that support FLAC may still choke on the v2 tag) 2) write your own custom tags into a custom FLAC metadata block (will require some coding on your part still) 3) hope that I get vorbis-style tags into a new FLAC metadata block in your time frame :) #1 sounds like the best bet for you now, and there are lots of little programs that will do id3 tag management on existing files (like id3ren). #3 will happen but not for a couple of months. I'm _real_ busy lately. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/
Just finally getting around to this :-) I've never used abcde...looks like it'll be a winner in my book....just to understand...your patch (which does tagging) is against the original and only FLAC patch that enables abcde to do flac which is v1.9.9 and the newest is 2.0.3? or do I just patch your new patch against 2.03? Yeah I know I should just try it (and I'm sure I will) I just wanted to double check what I'm doing hehhe Chris benny k. wrote:>On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote: > >>So there are no command line options like in oggenc to do artist and >>misc tags? Sure if you've got a solution that I don't have to do from >>scratch then post away! :-) >> > >the patch is located below. i have already submitted it to the author. > >http://www.bagu.org/flac.html > >i have also made a utility to calculate the discid of flac files so that >files that don't have id-tags, what whatever tags become the standard, can be >added with cddb. right now its a giant hack on meta-flac but it works. if ppl >are interested i will clean it up. i'm still working on the "tagger" script >that is based on abcde and uses this flac-discid thing so i have not posted >any of that stuff. > >as far as the id-tags thing goes, i use id3v2 tags because flac is >supposed to be streamable. thus it only makes sense to put the >tags at the beginning of the file so that software can read the tags at the >start of playing the streaming song (of course i haven't seen any streaming >software that supports flac yet, but just in case something comes up :) > >id3v2 and id3v1 are just slapped on the beginning and end respectively. so if >you ever what to get rid of them, its a simple process. > >but what do it know :) > >ben > > >>Thanks! >>Chris >> >>benny k. wrote: >> >>>hi chris, >>> >>>On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:22:06AM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote: >>> >>>>Hey all..I'm brand new to FLAC and learning to use it. Can somebody tell >>>>me how to insert things such as Artist, album etc. into the FLAC file? >>>>I'd like to do this at encode time via the command line. >>>> >>>as far as i know you can't. you have to use id3v1 or id3v2 tags. if you >>>using linux i have made a patch for abcde, a command line ripper/encoder w/ >>>cddb and id3 support. if you want it, i can make it available. its just a >>>shell script so it may work with other unix as well. >>> >>>let me know and i'll put it on my web page. >>> >>>ben >>> >>-- >>HAM AND EGGS A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig. >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Flac-users mailing list >>Flac-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-users >>-- I hope that after I die, people will say of me: "That guy sure owed me a lot of money."