Renaming tracks,etc. after grip

[Cyber Source]

you can all put all naming conventions right in grip.

pirrone wrote:

> 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
>