Hi,

I ripped a sizeable library using a buggy ripper + encoder that produces slightly malformed Ogg files. The files play, but because of the defect, the first few hundred milliseconds of sound is discarded.

It's also the case that I painstakingly fixed up the typically haphazard and incomplete tag info retrieved by the ripper from CDDB (Gracenote).

Now that I've discovered that I have to re-rip and re-encode (this time using either EAC or CDex--I haven't decided for sure, yet), I'm looking for a way to salvage all the manual tagging work I did the first time around.

Does anyone know of a tool that would allow me to take tag info from one file an content from another? Alternately, a tool that would overlay tags from one file onto another or audio content from one file onto the (in each case leaving the original content or tags, resp., intact) would be useful.

Thanks in advance.

By the way, I'm aware of MusicBrainz, but if they're not going accept all the (likewise painstaking) tag information I provide, I'm not going to continue to contribute to their system. I'm all for democracy, but their voting system totally hobbles moderator input. IMO, of course...

Randall Schulz

The vorbiscomment command-line tool allows you to save/retrieve tags to/from a text file. I use it with its "--raw" option, with a shell script to do tag scripting, but it can be tedious at times.

Case's Tag, another command line tool, has a "Copy tags from one file to another" feature, so if vorbiscomment isn't an option you might be better off with Tag.

There are some GUI frontends for Tag, which I hope you'll find helpful too.

Thank you!

That's just what I need. I'd prefer to handle this via a script, actually, even if I have to construct each invocation separately. That's what find, grep, sed etc. are for, after all.

RRS