[geeks] re: LAME

[Nathaniel Grady]

>Anyone using LAME?
>I see the "-ta" option, but It doesn't like
>cat old.mp3 | lame -ta "Artist" > new.mp3

There is an "input mp3" option that tells it the input is a mp3 and not a wav. I'm not at home so off the top of my head I don't recall it. I think it will re-encode the file however, which you probably don't want to do. There should be a number of id3 tag utils however that are more suited to your task, such as id3tool (http://kitsumi.xware.cx/id3tool/) or id3v2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/id3v2/). mp3_check (http://mp3check.sourceforge.net/) or mp3ck (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3ck/) [sorry - I can't remember which one I was using - not at home so can't check easily] also should help with a whole directory of files - and you can check to make sure there's no corruption in the files themselves at the same time to boot :) I've been using lame to re-encode my mp3's down a few notches for my rio - I'd rather have 1.5 hours of decent sounding musing than .5 hours of perfect sounding music (and over the noise of cars and stuff it's not like I can tell :)

Good luck!
--Nathaniel Grady