VORBISCOMMENT

Section: Vorbis Tools (1.0)
Updated: December 24, 2001
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NAME

vorbiscomment - edits Ogg Vorbis comments

SYNOPSIS

vorbiscomment [-l] file.ogg
vorbiscomment -a [ -t ``tag=value'' ] in.ogg out.ogg
vorbiscomment -w in.ogg out.ogg

DESCRIPTION

vorbiscomment 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 element 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

AUTHORS

Program Authors:: Michael Smith <msmith@labyrinth.net.au>
Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org>
Manpage Author:: Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>