Renaming tracks,etc. after grip

[Joe]

Thanks. I'm taking a flail at installing it.  So far it needs ths mono 
package that weighs in at 50 MB (installer), so we'll see what I find 
when I wake up in the morning (49K connection).

Joe

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

> 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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