Renaming tracks,etc. after grip

[Jesse Jarzynka]

if people are really obsessed with the tags on their music files, check 
out http://more-cowbell.org/ . I can't see a neccessity for this stuff, 
but I guess our respective OCD's affect different things?
-Jesse
Cyber Source wrote:

> 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
>>
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