Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

[sdoma <sdoma@karneval.cz>]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:58 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > Could you point me to some of the "lots of tools" you mentioned?
> 
> media-sound/audiotag
>       Latest version available: 0.15
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 14 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.tempestgames.com/ryan/
>       Description: A command-line audio file meta-data tagger. Sets id3 and/or 
> vorbis tags in mp3, ogg, and flac files.
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/cantus
>       Latest version available: 20060206
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 400 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.debain.org/software/cantus/
>       Description: Easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and 
> OGG/Vorbis
> files
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/choad
>       Latest version available: 0.822
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 7 kB
>       Homepage:    http://ftso.org/choad/index1.html
>       Description: a command-line, Perl-based 
> CD-ripping-ID3-tagging-and-mp3-encoding utility
>       License:     Artistic
> 
> *  media-sound/cowbell
>       Latest version available: 0.2.7.1
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 1,309 kB
>       Homepage:    http://more-cowbell.org
>       Description: Elegantly tag and rename mp3/ogg/flac files
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/easytag
>       Latest version available: 1.99.12
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 3,905 kB
>       Homepage:    http://easytag.sourceforge.net/
>       Description: EasyTAG mp3/ogg ID3 tag editor
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/id3
>       Latest version available: 0.12-r1
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 12 kB
>       Homepage:    http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/
>       Description: changes the id3 tag in an mp3 file
> 
>   media-sound/id3ed
>       Latest version available: 1.10.4
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 92 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.dakotacom.net/~donut/programs/id3ed.html
>       Description: ID3 tag editor for mp3 files
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/id3tool
>       Latest version available: 1.2
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 112 kB
>       Homepage:    http://nekohako.xware.cx/id3tool/
>       Description: A command line utility for easy manipulation of the ID3 
> tags present in MPEG Layer 3 audio files
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/id3v2
>       Latest version available: 0.1.11
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 153 kB
>       Homepage:    http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/
>       Description: A command line editor for id3v2 tags.
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
>  media-sound/kid3
>       Latest version available: 0.6
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 2,529 kB
>       Homepage:    http://kid3.sourceforge.net/
>       Description: A simple ID3 tag editor for QT/KDE.
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/madman [ Masked ]
>       Latest version available: 0.93
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 1,606 kB
>       Homepage:    http://madman.sourceforge.net/
>       Description: MP3 organizer/ID3 tag-editor extraordinaire
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/mp3info
>       Latest version available: 0.8.4-r2
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 37 kB
>       Homepage:    http://ibiblio.org/mp3info/
>       Description: An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> *  media-sound/musicman
>       Latest version available: 0.15
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 1,423 kB
>       Homepage:    http://musicman.sourceforge.net/
>       Description: A Konqueror plugin for manipulating ID3 tags in MP3 files
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> 
> > ... and what about the time information? It is silly to have a 3 minute
> > song with shows as days long and even negative duration :( (well, this
> > could be an ``unsigned int'' issue.
> 
> I don't know how to fix it. But is it really so important? Do you watch the 
> timing information while listening to the song?

Thanks a lot for the info. Well, the timing (indeed) isn't that
important. Just to know; if I have say 600MB of MP3 is this 8 hours, 10
hours, a day? Maybe amongst the tools you mentioned is one which enables
me to get this info out of a playlist.

Thanks onesmore
Frank


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