[vorbis] backing up comments

[John Denton]

Hi Martin,

I'd suggest you should direct your observations to whoever is responsible
for CDex. Seems a silly omission to me, not allowing a user to save all his
comments.

<p>J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Blackwell" <djdij at handbags.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] backing up comments

<p>> 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.

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