Subj : Re: Changing file descrip
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 10:53 am

  Re: Re: Changing file descrip
  By: Angus McLeod to Digital Man on Thu Sep 01 2005 01:05 am

 >   Re: Re: Changing file descrip
 >   By: Digital Man to Michael Roberts on Wed Aug 31 2005 14:40:00
 > 
 >  > For MP3 files, currently the best way to "describe" the file is in the fi
 >  > name (which Synchronet will import as the description, if longer than
 >  > "filename.mp3") - an MP3 ID tag import-as-description module could be wri
 >  > for Synchronet pretty easily. A good idea for a 3rd party (!).
 > 
 > My memory seems a little vague, but isn't there a file that you can
 > write a long description to that will be used as the description for the
 > file?

Yeah. Either a file (sbbsfile.des) or an environment variable ("SBBSFILEDESC").

 > You could use any console-mode ID3 dumper utility to write to this file
 > and then the results would become the description.  If absolutely
 > necessary, you could "use MP3::Tag;" in a simple Perl script to do it.
 > You could also run /usr/local/bin/rdjpgcom to get descriptions for JPEG
 > images, or /usr/bin/vorbiscomment for .ogg files, and so forth.

Absolutely.

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