Vorbis dev - Jan 2002 - vorbiscomment inconsistency

I think that vorbiscomment should really use -c "this=that" to specify
tags on the commandline, consistent with oggenc.  That displaces the
tag source file, so I'd suggest -f, consistent with at least some other
programs (although I can only think of tar, right now).  I'd also
suggest that it use -o for an output filename rather than splattering
the second file on the commandline, which I would expect to suffer
exactly the same fate as the first file on the commandline, whatever
fate that may be.  For example:

vorbiscomment -w -f commontags.txt this.ogg that.ogg
vorbiscomment -a -c "album=this" track1.ogg track2.ogg track3.ogg

Borrowing -e behaviour from crontab would be nice, too, but I'm not
pushing that too hard in case someon suggests I do it, or worse, I get
pounded by script zealots telling me how just one more script in my life
will save someone from a world of proper coding.

I also think that ogg123 should use -o for output filename, not -f, but
I don't expect a change to that to be well received.  Guessing the
output plugin from the filname might be nice, though.

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Simon Hosie wrote:
> I also think that ogg123 should use -o for output filename, not -f, but
> I don't expect a change to that to be well received.  Guessing the
> output plugin from the filname might be nice, though.
The former suggestion isn't probably going to happen, but the latter will,
at
some point.  Support for guessing the output driver from the extension is
already in libao, it just requires ogg123 to use that info.

Feel free to file a "bug" at http://bugs.xiph.org against ogg123 to
remind me
to do it.  :)


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