GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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Information about an audio file can be stored as part of the audio file itself (at least in OGG or MP3 format). This can include track titles, artists, album titles, genre, and more. You can view the information using the vorbiscomment command:
$ vorbiscomment -l track05.ogg title=Mother artist=Roger Waters album=In The Flesh - Live tracknumber=5 genre=Rock |
Other useful tools for editting the audio information includes the terminal-based orpheus (not currently packaged for Debian as of 11 March 2004).
MP3 encoders are entwined in legal issues that are too complex to get into here. Recording your personal CDs to listen to the music you've already paid for appears reasonable.
The encoder of choice is call lame. The Debian package is available at http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/.
The issue with MP3 is that the MP3 codec is patented by Fraunhofer in Germany, and a license is required to use it. To address this a free audio format has been developed called Ogg Vorbis. There are many utilities that will rip CDs to Ogg Vorbis format.
