Renaming tracks,etc. after grip

[pirrone]

Joe wrote:

> Hi.  I just ran grip on a new cd.  It ripped and encoded fine, but ...
> It saved the files as ~/mp3/noartist/unknown_disc/01_track_01 ...  .
> I don't think the cd is in freedb.
>
> I tried renaming everything to the real names using "_" instead of 
> blanks and then edited noartist-unknown_disc.m3u for the new names 
> (using gedit).
>
> Now, when I try to play it using noatun, it opens and plays fine, but 
> the playlist shows up as all [noartist] Track 01 ...  and a few of the 
> tracks have astronomical kbs numbers after them.
>
> How do I fix this?  (and ... no, I don't want to upgrade my distro ... 
> at this point.  I'm still working on getting to a new shiny machine 
> with everything updated, but I'm not there yet.)
>
> Mandrake Linux 9.1
> grip 3.05
> noatun 2.2.1 under kde 3.1.0
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
Joe,

Those are the ID3 tags and all you need is an editor that allows you to 
enter this information - Artist, Title, Album, Genre, Date, etc.

A CLI utility id3tag supports these operation:
id3tag
Usage: id3tag [OPTIONS]... [FILES]...
   -h         --help            Print help and exit
   -V         --version         Print version and exit
   -1         --v1tag           Render only the id3v1 tag (default=off)
   -2         --v2tag           Render only the id3v2 tag (default=off)
   -aSTRING   --artist=STRING   Set the artist information
   -ASTRING   --album=STRING    Set the album title information
   -sSTRING   --song=STRING     Set the title information
   -cSTRING   --comment=STRING  Set the comment information
   -CSTRING   --desc=STRING     Set the comment description
   -ySTRING   --year=STRING     Set the year
   -tSTRING   --track=STRING    Set the track number
   -TSTRING   --total=STRING    Set the total number of tracks
   -gSHORT    --genre=SHORT     Set the genre
   -w         --warning         Turn on warnings (for debugging) 
(default=off)
   -n         --notice          Turn on notices (for debugging) 
(default=off)
and is part of id3libs (my version is id3lib-3.8.3-9.i386.rpm and there 
are a few GUI wrappers for this functionality.

You are correct, if cddb finds the disc it can be ripped with the track 
names both in the .wav and the .mp3 encode, otherwise I don't know of 
any way that you can type the track names and point grip at that.

Frank