Subj : Re: Changing file descrip
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 05:35 pm

  Re: Re: Changing file descrip
  By: Angus McLeod to Digital Man on Thu Sep 01 2005 08:58 pm

 >   Re: Re: Changing file descrip
 >   By: Digital Man to Angus McLeod on Thu Sep 01 2005 10:53:00
 > 
 >  >  > 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 t
 >  >  > file?
 >  >
 >  > Yeah. Either a file (sbbsfile.des) or an environment variable ("SBBSFILED
 >  >
 >  >  > You could use any console-mode ID3 dumper utility to write to this fil
 >  >  > 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 JPE
 >  >  > images, or /usr/bin/vorbiscomment for .ogg files, and so forth.
 >  >
 >  > Absolutely.
 > 
 > The problem (for Windows users) is that the utilities out there tend *not*
 > to be console-mode, directing their output to STDOUT where it can be used.
 > No, they generally pop up a box with an "OK" button for some mouse-
 > clicking icon-head to press.  Gee, so useful!

There are still many very useful stdio-based utilities for Windows. Of course,
many of them come from *nix ports, but we still have them at our disposal. A
command-line/stdio based utility to parse MP3 IDs should be pretty easy to
create or obtain (or port if needed).

                                                  digital man

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