Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:27:28 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preserving id3 tag with mp3-->wav-->mp3 conversions Message-ID: <20001114172728.A42464@platinum.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20001113022831.55274.qmail@web10307.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20001113022831.55274.qmail@web10307.mail.yahoo.com>
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Graham Guttocks wrote: > Can anyone recommend a command line tool that would allow me to easily > extract the id3 tags from the original MP3, and then write them to the > new MP3 after it is encoded? 'tail -c128' might be able to help; the MP3 tag is just the last 128 bytes of the MP3 file. Just take those off the original, re-encode it, and append the bytes on again. For a sanity check make sure the first three bytes of the last 128 bytes are the three letters "TAG". Alternatively write a small perl script to do it, there's nothing particularly magic about MP3 tags. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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