RE: [MLUG] batch editing ID3 tags - a good FOSS solution?

["Fallert, Adam Christian" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

As I said previously, iTunes and Rhythmbox for gnome will allow you to
select multiple files and edit them at once.  iTunes may not be command
line or FOSS but it is still FREE.  ;)

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:36 PM
To: MLUG Members
Subject: Re: [MLUG] batch editing ID3 tags - a good FOSS solution?

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> As I understand it, ID3v1 is just data written in the last 128 bytes
of 
> a track, and ID3v2 is rather more complicated. You might have to roll 
> your own for this given an appropriate library. For Ruby, this looks 
> fairly promising:
>
> http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/Ruby/ID3/docs/index.html

I mostly want to work with ID3v2.  It's good to know about that Ruby 
thing, but I might not want to work that hard on this.  My current need
is 
*so* simple...


>> The goal of batch editing is to reduce tedium.
>
> It reduces tedium once you have the script written. :-)

I know there must be something out there.  There has to be.  My needs
are 
very simple.

Right now all I *really* need to be able to do is to add a comment tag! 
I want to add the same comment to thousands of files, so I don't want to

do it "by hand."  I really think that has to be very easy.  Anyone??

For the more general solution:  I'm pretty sure I could do anything I'd 
ever want to do if I could just use regexp pattern matching within given

ID3 fields.

Mike

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