Re: Fwd: ogg tag

Ron Eggler wrote:

>If I encode music to ogg, does Grip write ID3-Tags in the files?
>
Most Vorbis encoders (including oggenc, the Vorbis default in Grip)
write metadata to Ogg comment fields, not to ID3 tags. In additional to
the usual ARTIST, TITLE, ALBUM, and TRACKNUMBER, one can also make
custom fields of practically any length.

Look under "Config | Encode | Encoder | Encoder executable" to see what
executable you're using. Grip doesn't do the actual encoding -- instead
it passes the ripped WAV files and their metadata to a Vorbis encoder.

>Why, doesn't it make the files corrupt since ogg doesn't support ID3 (I think it's called ogg-comment or so...) isn't exactly the same 'n Winamp in windows doesn't play ogg files with ID3.
>
Winamp with the Vorbis plugin reads Ogg metadata as well.

> Patch available?
>  
>
Not needed. I've not seen Winamp in years, but it probably still
includes an option in the File Info dialog where you can view the extra
fields (beyond what ID3 usually includes).

The Ogg metadata standard (which is also the standard for FLAC and
Speex) is generally more featured than ID3. Further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis_comment
http://xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html
http://www.gophernet.org/articles/vorbiscomment.html

Es.

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