Re: Hyphen in Vorbis Comment

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:55:18AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:37 AM, gt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to tag some ogg vorbis files with hyphen "-" in the
> > comment field. For e.g. album name = Example - EP.
> >
> > But this is being displayed as
> > ALBUM=Example
> > ALBUM=EP
> >
> > Is there no way we can have a hyphen in the comments section?
> 
> There is; the comments have no restriction on their contents.  You
> haven't said what you're using to add the comments, but I'm going to
> take a wild guess that you didn't manage to escape the comment
> completely in the shell command line?
> 
> In any case, whatever is happening, the app is doing it intentionally,
> probably because it thinks you're telling it to do so :-)
> 
> Monty

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:04PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> Hi, this is definitely allowed, what software are you using to add the tag?

Hello, thanks to both of you for the quick replies. I am using easytag
for editing the vorbis comments.

In fact, i was till now using mp3tag under wine (for mp3s), and it was serving
me well. But now i want to switch to a native linux client. I have tried
picard, puddletag, easytag till now, and only easytag seems a bit useful
to me. But now it seems, it has its own problems. Which tag editor would
you guys suggest?

Another problem is that i like having album artist set in my music
files, but it seems there is no official specification for that in
vorbis comments. Is there a workaround for that?

Thanks