vorbiscomment
List or edit comments in Ogg Vorbis files
see also :
oggenc - oggdec - ogg123 - ogginfo
Synopsis
vorbiscomment
[-l] [-R] [-e] file.ogg
vorbiscomment -a [ -c commentfile | -t
“name=value” ] [-q] [-R]
[-e] in.ogg [out.ogg]
vorbiscomment -w [ -c commentfile | -t
“name=value” ] [-q] [-R]
[-e] in.ogg [out.ogg]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
To just see what comment tags are in a file:
vorbiscomment -l file.ogg
To edit those comments:
vorbiscomment -l file.ogg > file.txt
[edit the comments in file.txt to your satisfaction]
vorbiscomment -w -c file.txt file.ogg newfile.ogg
To simply add a comment:
vorbiscomment -a -t ’ARTIST=No One You Know’ file.ogg newfile.ogg
To add a set of comments from the standard input:
vorbiscomment -a file.ogg
ARTIST=No One You Know
ALBUM=The Famous Album
<ctrl-d>
description
vorbiscomment
Reads, modifies, and appends Ogg Vorbis audio file metadata
tags.
options
-a,
--append
Append comments.
-c file, --commentfile file
Take comments from a file. The
file is the same format as is output by the the -l option or
given to the -t option: one element per line in
’tag=value’ format. If the file is /dev/null and
-w was passed, the existing comments will be removed.
-h, --help
Show command help.
-l, --list
List the comments in the Ogg
Vorbis file.
-q, --quiet
Quiet mode. No messages are
displayed.
-t ’name=value’,
--tag ’name=value’
Specify a new tag on the
command line. Each tag is given as a single string. The part
before the ’=’ is treated as the tag name and
the part after as the value.
-w, --write
Replace comments with the new
set given either on the command line with -t or from a file
with -c. If neither -c nor -t is given, the new set will be
read from the standard input.
-R, --raw
Read and write comments in
UTF-8, rather than converting to the user’s character
set.
-e, --escapes
Quote/unquote newlines and
backslashes in the comments. This ensures every comment is
exactly one line in the output (or input), allowing to
filter and round-trip them. Without it, you can only write
multi-line comments by using -t and you can’t reliably
distinguish them from multiple one-line comments.
Supported
escapes are c-style "\n", "\r",
"\\" and "\0". A backslash followed by
anything else is an error.
Note:
currently, anything after the first "\0" is thrown
away while writing. This is a bug -- the Vorbis format can
safely store null characters, but most other tools
wouldn’t handle them anyway.
-V, --version
Display the version of
vorbiscomment.
tag format
See http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html for
documentation on the Ogg Vorbis tag format, including a suggested
list of canonical tag names.
see also
oggenc ,
oggdec , ogg123 , ogginfo
authors
Program
Authors:
Michael Smith
<msmith[:at:]xiph[:dot:]org>
Ralph Giles <giles[:at:]xiph[:dot:]org>
Manpage Author:
Christopher L Cheney
<ccheney[:at:]debian[:dot:]org>