[vorbis] backing up comments

[Martin Blackwell]

I use CDex
unless i've missed something, it only saves the freedb/cddb information, not
the comment information.
I'm not encoding from waves as that takes even more time, and wastes space &
resources.
The only vorbis related batch program i use is Vorbisgain, and that takes
ages to do, and I imagine it would be a lot quicker to just batch write
vorbis comments for the replaygain tags to the files than re-batching them.
Although for more accurate results, re-batching with Vorbisgain would be
more suitable.

In a perfect world, I would want a CD Ripper programme that:

1) allows me to enter the Vorbis comments before the CD is ripped, and give
me the option to restore from backups.
2) The CD Ripper would also apply the replaygain automatically after the
album has been encoded (not before, then applying the tags later, Vorbis
apparently has some high-frequency boosts, so results may be different).
3) It would also not crash when using any "Paranoia" mode such as CDex does
when reading from CDs with so-called "enhanced" sections, and it gets to the
last track. Even Copahs' CD-Reader for wa2 has probs with this (skipping the
last track under 'paranoia, full', then going back to standard for the last
track is a work-around, but obviously lowers the ripping quality) .

I desperately need such a tool- if one exists that fits all three of my
needs.

> This thread confuses me. You are in Windows (you mention 98). If you are
> encoding using a batch file then all you have to do is save the batch file
> for the next time you want to encode your wavs.
>
> If you are using a GUI program then surely it provides the option to save
> your tag data - doesn't it? If it doesn't, how on earth do you manage? I
> take in a dir of wavs, enter the tag data I require, apply replaygain and
> encode to oggs. At any time in that process I might be called away and
have
> to shut my machine down. If I couldn't save the tag data I'd have to enter
> it all again (for tracks that didn't get encoded anyway).
>
> I would have thought this a requirement of a Windows encoder..
>
>
>
> J.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Blackwell" <djdij at handbags.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [vorbis] backing up comments
>
>
> > GW>find . -name '*.ogg' -print |
> > GW>  while read ogg; do
> > GW>    echo "== $ogg"
> > GW>    vorbiscomment -l "$ogg"
> > GW>  done > some.file
> >
> > GW>That will, of course, break if you have newlines in your filenames.
> >
> > >MB> (I am using win98 after all
> >
> > GW>Uh... well... there's always Cygwin....
> >
> > Last time i tried to touch Cygwin it was too confusing for me to use at
> the
> > time.
>
>
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