From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Nov 15 6:12:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3162137B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:12:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07660 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:12:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09778 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:12:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G42KTF00.BAK; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:12:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3A129A0E.95B94A6E@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:13:34 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Guttocks Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preserving id3 tag with mp3-->wav-->mp3 conversions References: <20001115064857.42190.qmail@web10306.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Graham Guttocks wrote: > > Ben Smithurst wrote: > > > Alternatively write a small perl script to do it, there's nothing > > particularly magic about MP3 tags. > > Thanks for the info, I didn't realise the nature of mp3 tags were > so simple. In any case, I've attached the perl script I hacked up > this afternoon in case it may be of use to anyone else. I plan to > let it run on my 12GB of MP3s while I'm out of town this weekend. I don't know if you noticed it, but lame supports vbr encoding now with the -v switch. I find it makes the mp3 sound a little better and take a little less space, although it makes the filesizes vary a bit more than they do with the straight encoding. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message