[lug] Patching metadata in audiofiles

[Elyse M. Grasso]

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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