[lug] Patching metadata in audiofiles

Andrew Hoffman sixgod at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 07:04:00 MST 2010


In windows i use a program called foobar2000 <http://www.foobar2000.org/>(it
works under wine also) I has the best tag editor I have ever seen, Its also
a very light weight program for large music library

-Andy

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Elyse M. Grasso
<emgrasso at data-raptors.com>wrote:

> I've got a bunch of cds -- mostly purchased from very small sources like
> directly from the performers -- that turn out to have missing or broken
> metadata when I rip them and try play them with Rockbox on  my Sansa MP3
> player or in Amarok.  (I used the built-in KDE functions to translate the
> wav
> files to mp3s or ogg files.)
>
> Can anyone recommend a preferred tool for patching audio file metadata? I
> don't
> mind re-ripping the cds if it's best to start from the wav files == I'm
> just
> beginning to rip my collection of world music, which seems to have most of
> the
> problems. The filkers seem to mostly get it right.
>
> Speaking of world music -- in the digitally  remastered versions of
> Kitaro's
> Silk Road albums, the metadata on volume 2 is fine, but the file names and
> presumably the metadata on volume 1 are showing in Japanese in Linux and
> not
> showing at all in Rockbox, even though I patched the filenames. So I'll be
> investigating the handling of UTF8 in Rockbox before I rip my koto and
> taiko
> cds, but I'll want to be able to add English metadata to any that are only
> in
> Japanese.
>
> --
> Elyse Grasso
>
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