On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 18:55 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: > <http://www.mp3.com/news/stories/10762.html> > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Dean Messing wrote: > > > I'm not actually even sure what "ID3" tags are. > > > > They are meta-information records included with most digital sound files > > (e.g. title, composer, artist, year, bitrate, genre and so on). In > > Fedora they are supported via the id3lib package. Amarok, RythmBox etc. > > simply use this information to organize tracks and playlists. > > So, perhaps I'll be able to use the tags + Amarok to organise > all the music, and then write the file structure out to > the Cowon? The tag info is inside the sound file, so yes. > > > I only know that the Cowon A3 does _not_ [use IDE tags] for > > > automatic searching and organisation (according to > > > reviews). > > > > I know nothing about this player, though I'd be surprised if it had no > > support at all for tags. > > It evidently does not. But it has many other features that compensate > for that, including many open audio and video formats, It also has > about the highest audio quality of any player out there. > > For your interest, here's a link to a Feb 08 review: > <http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/> > > > In any case, you definitely want to add tag > > info to your tracks for your own future sanity (and some other model of > > player you might eventually own). > > Agreed, though I'm not sure what that means. Is the tag information > carried in the file name, or in some metadata area w/in the track > itself, or as separate files w/in the ripped-to directory? It's part of the sound file. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id3 > > Tags for CDs you rip yourself have to be either added manually or > > downloaded from an online database such as http://www.freedb.org/. Most > > rippers can do this for you automatically (they calculate an ID based on > > the combination of track durations, which is a fairly unique fingerprint > > for each CD). If for any reason your CD isn't in the database, you get > > to add the tags by hand (and preferably return something to the > > community by uploading them to the database). The rippers will allow you > > to create tags, or you can use a package such as easytag (yum install > > easytag). > > Very helpful. Do you recommend a ripper under KDE/F8 that is powerful > and easy. I have very little time to rip 83 CDs, figure out Amarok > (or whatever) for the purpose of organising things, and then putting > it all on the Cowon. Others have suggested KaudioCreator and I'm happy > to try it. Anything better? (I've only comline ripping with cdparanoia). Grip is reasonable, also Sound Juicer, also k3b. There are several others. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
