VORBISCOMMENT(1) Vorbis Tools VORBISCOMMENT(1)NAMEvorbiscomment - edits Ogg Vorbis comments
SYNOPSISvorbiscomment [-l] file.ogg
vorbiscomment-a [ -t "tag=value" ] in.ogg out.ogg
vorbiscomment-w in.ogg out.ogg
DESCRIPTIONvorbiscomment reads, modifies, and appends Ogg Vorbis
audio file metadata tags.
OPTIONS-a Append comments.
-c commentfile
Take comments from a file. The file is the same
format as is output by the the -l option: one ele
ment per line in 'tag=value' format.
-h Show command help.
-l List the comments in the ogg vorbis file.
-q Quiet mode. No messages are displayed.
-t 'tag=value'
Specify a new tag on the command line. Each tag is
given as a single string. The part before the '='
is treated as the tag name and the part after as
the value.
-w Replace comments with the new set given either on
the command line with -t or from a file with -c.
EXAMPLES
To just see what comment tags are in a file:
vorbiscomment-l file.ogg
To edit those comments:
vorbiscomment-l file.ogg > file.txt
[edit the comments in file.txt to your statisfaction]
vorbiscomment-w -c file.txt file.ogg newfile.ogg
To simply add a comment:
vorbiscomment-a -t 'ARTIST=No One You Know' file.ogg
newfile.ogg
SEE ALSO
See http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html for doc
umentation on the Ogg Vorbis tag format, including a sug
gested list of canonical tag names.
AUTHORS
Program Authors:
Michael Smith <msmith@labyrinth.net.au>
Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org>
Manpage Author:
Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>
Xiph.org Foundation December 24, 2001 VORBISCOMMENT(1)
