I received fifty mp3 files (legally), containing various speeches I intend to listen to. While they were accompanied by a listing of contents, dates and speakers, there was no apparent naming convention for the actual media files, and neither were the tagged properly.
With a little search/replace from OpenOffice Writer, I transformed the listing into a batch file of sorts, instructing lame to apply the proper tags. Alas, I couldn’t figure out how to tell it to just tag’em, thankyouverymuch. Lame insisted on recoding each file, which given the already low bandwith of those particular files, wasn’t something I wanted it to do.
Would you believe there aren’t any (windows-based!) utilities to tag mp3 files from the command line? Eventually I found one here, but it only knows ID3v1 tags. I was quickly able to tag all these files, and using tag’s –rentag function, I could also rename the files to something more manageable.
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