Subj : Re: Changing file descrip
To   : Digital Man
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 09:57 am

  Re: Re: Changing file descrip
  By: Digital Man to Angus McLeod on Thu Sep 01 2005 17:35:00

 >  > 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 cours
 > 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).

True, but mp3info, vorbiscomment, rdjpgcom, etc are all on my Linux system 
without my having to go and locate a suitable utility.  I have not 
attempted to do so, but I could probably do something like

	MP3	mp3info %f > sbbsfile.des
	OGG	vorbiscomment %f > sbbsfile.des
	JPG	rdjpgcom %f > sbbsfile.des

in my "Testable File types" and have that working with virtually no 
furthur effort.  An untested version of mp3info exists

	http://tinyurl.com/c7auv

but I don't know offhand where to get console-mode utilities to read JPEG 
of Ogg Vorbis comments.  They must be out there, but it's a chore that any 
interested sysop will have to look after.


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