[Flac-users] How do I encode a FLAC with tags?

[benny k.]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote:
> So there are no command line options like in oggenc to do artist and 
> misc tags? Sure if you've got a solution that I don't have to do from 
> scratch then post away! :-)

the patch is located below. i have already submitted it to the author.

http://www.bagu.org/flac.html

i have also made a utility to calculate the discid of flac files so that
files that don't have id-tags, what whatever tags become the standard, can be
added with cddb. right now its a giant hack on meta-flac but it works. if ppl
are interested i will clean it up. i'm still working on the "tagger" script
that is based on abcde and uses this flac-discid thing so i have not posted
any of that stuff.

as far as the id-tags thing goes, i use id3v2 tags because flac is 
supposed to be streamable. thus it only makes sense to put the
tags at the beginning of the file so that software can read the tags at the 
start of playing the streaming song (of course i haven't seen any streaming
software that supports flac yet, but just in case something comes up :)

id3v2 and id3v1 are just slapped on the beginning and end respectively. so if
you ever what to get rid of them, its a simple process.

but what do it know :)

ben


> 
> Thanks!
> Chris
> 
> benny k. wrote:
> 
> >hi chris,
> >
> >On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:22:06AM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote:
> >
> >>Hey all..I'm brand new to FLAC and learning to use it. Can somebody tell 
> >>me how to insert things such as Artist, album etc. into the FLAC file? 
> >>I'd like to do this at encode time via the command line.
> >>
> >
> >as far as i know you can't. you have to use id3v1 or id3v2 tags. if you
> >using linux i have made a patch for abcde, a command line ripper/encoder w/
> >cddb and id3 support. if you want it, i can make it available. its just a
> >shell script so it may work with other unix as well.
> >
> >let me know and i'll put it on my web page.
> >
> >ben
> >
> 
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