[lug] Patching metadata in audiofiles

[David Ahern]

I've used mp3info:
http://ibiblio.org/mp3info/

David

On 11/17/10 06:40, Elyse M. Grasso 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.   
>