[microsound] microsound Digest, Vol 3, Issue 21

David dfkettle at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 12:42:33 EDT 2009


Did you try the command-line utility that comes with the lame MP3 encoder?

http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/lame/lame/USAGE

For example,

> lame --id3v1-only <input file> <output file>

David.


On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Charlie DeTar <chazen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1.3.5.  It appears the choice of ID3 version was removed for the 1.3 branch:
>
> http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2494&start=10#p30851
>
> -charlie
>
> David wrote:
>> Which version of Audacity did you try? I believe that in the stable
>> version (1.2.26) you have a choice of v1or v2 tags. The beta version
>> (1.3.x) may not give you a choice, but I'll have to confirm that. I
>> should also point out that you need to download and install the "lame"
>> MP3 encoder, it's not included with Audacity, although there's a link
>> to another site where you can download it.
>>
>> David.
>>
>>> From: Charlie DeTar <chazen at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [microsound] Id3 tags
>>> To: microsound at microsound.org
>>> Message-ID: <49BA70B1.8070508 at gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>>
>>> David wrote:
>>>> Try Audacity, it's cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux) and free.
>>>>
>>>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>>>>
>>>> David.
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> In my testing, Audacity did not produce ID3 tags compatible with the
>>> repository.  I suspect that it uses v2 tags instead of the required v1 tags.
>>>
>>> -charlie
>>>
>>>
>
>


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