Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:54:20 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.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: <3A101CBC.3BC0364@mitre.org> References: <20001113022831.55274.qmail@web10307.mail.yahoo.com>
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Graham Guttocks wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have about 12GB of MP3 files that I now wish I had encoded at a lower > bitrate so that they took up less diskspace. I plan to solve this by > decoding the MP3s into WAVE format, and then re-encoding them back into > MP3, this time at a lower bitrate. The problem is that I'll lose the > id3 tags in the process. > > 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? Well, there's mp3info in the ports. It works OK, but it doesn't support the new genre tags. It's very customizable, and you should have no problem scripting with it. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | 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
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