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Searching for a command line tagging tool for mp3 and ogg that supports pictures

I am searching a command-line tagging tool that supports ogg- and mp3-tagging and allows to add a picture to the tags. Currently I use lltag but that does not support pictures. dagger is the tool I ...
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Which MP3 tagging tool for Linux? [closed]

Which application would you recommend for Linux to tag MP3s? Under Windows I used to use Tag&Rename and liked it a lot; it works well under Wine, but I want something that runs natively.
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Mass .flac --> .mp3 transcoding: How to write a shell script that preserves ID3 tag information?

In recent weeks I've gone from a fairly 'hands-on' approach to .flac --> .mp3 transcoding, to one that's far more 'set & forget'. The first step was to stop using a GUI front end (Audacity with a ...
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How to Extract Album Cover Image from MP3 file?

I have a bunch of MP3 files that have their album art included within the file itself. I am now looking for a way to extract them to store them separably, at best from command line. Is there a way to ...
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command line tool to remove selected tags from mp3 files

Using MP3 Diags to clean up my mp3 collection, I've discovered that in addition to the ID3v2 tag, some files also have a Lyrics3, ID3v1, and some an APE tag. Are there command line tools out there to ...
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Remove duplicate mp3 with different name, size, and hash

I have a massive music library (all mp3), but I some of the music is almost the same but: Maybe one or two second longer About 97% the same as another song Or another bitrate. Is there a way to find ...
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Merge mp3 files

Neither cat nor mp3wrap are working for me. They merge the files, but the when playing the resulting file, the audio length information is wrong. That is, it show the length of the 1st part (the part ...
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How to encode huge FLAC files into MP3 and other files like AAC?

My problem is very long recordings, longer than supported by WAV. I'm talking about continuous recordings of around eight hours in length. Now, I do most of my recording using sox into FLAC, which ...
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Encoding of a zip file

When I extract some file (mp3) with japanese or korean characters within its filename on Windows, they appear normally, but when I extract it on Linux (Ubuntu/Mint) they appear as something like this ...
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Fix error in mp3 file

I have an mp3 file that plays OK on computer but there is a problem to play it on mp3 player. ffmpeg shows this: $ ffmpeg -i file.mp3 [mp3 @ 0x8de72a0] Invalid size in frame , skipping the rest of ...
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ffmpeg and libmp3lame produces bad audio quality?

when I get a flash video from YouTube, why is the quality of the audio much worse than the origin video on YouTube? When I downloaded the flash movie, I convert it to avi like this: ffmpeg -i ~/"$...
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