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from: PETE
date: 2020-05-26 05:28:00
subject: Audio file metadata?

This is, I guess, a more general Linux question, but as I'm working
on the Pi...

Is there any program that will let me edit the metadata in (in this
case) an Ogg-Vorbis file?  I can use Audacity, but that involves
loading (and translating) the file, just to write it out again
so I can edit a typo in the artist's name!  I assume there's
negligible degradation in going from compressed Ogg to Audacity
raw and back again, but it's slow and tedious.

I was surprised -- and pleased -- to find that 'exiftool' that I use
on my photos reads the metadata, but it can't rewrite the file.

[FTR, I have a project to digitize some of my old 45s, and it turns
out that my early Pi B, with 'arecord' and a USB audio link works
really nicely for that.  The Pi, wired into other stuff, is on the
other side of the room from my turntable, so I need to control the
Pi from my PDA via wifi (hence can't use Audacity directly), but
it's all fairly efficient.]

 -- Pete --

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