[vorbis] backing up comments

[Jonathan Walther]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:05:10AM -0000, Martin Blackwell wrote:
>   All this talk about vorbis comments has made me think.
>   Would it be possible to create backups of the Vorbis comments for my
>   vorbis collection (currently about 1850 files) ?
>   Instead of having to make sure I enter the correct details into CDex
>   (saving in to cdplayer.ini & backing up that), or if I have comments in
>   the Vorbis files that aren't stored in cdplayer.ini, such as the tags
>   discussed in the current "Vorbis comment question" thread, I was thinking
>   that it would be usefull to have such a tool that reads through the
>   collection, backsup the comments, so if I lose them through system fkukup
>   (I am using win98 after all :-P),  through viral attack, or because I
>   simply re-encode the collection with a newer version of the Vorbis codec.

I've been considering making a CDDB alternative that handles the Ogg Tag
Recommendations natively; would this fit your needs?  I am working
fairly heavily on Xouvert, but this shouldn't take more than a week.
All contents would be under the GFDL of course, so there'd be no
Gracenote scenarios.

Jonathan


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