On Friday 01 September 2006 17:47, sdoma wrote: > Hi, > > I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly coded. The > Interpret/Title information is missing for some, other show very ugly > time information in XMMS ( -234567:21, 893767:13 i.e.) but the > frame/duration in the MP3 info is correct. > > Are there any tools (preferred command line) to decode the MP3 (get a > raw audio file, wav or something similar) and in turn to code the MP3 > with the proper information?
even if there are tools - don't do it. The artist/title info is in the id4 tags - you can edit them with lots of tools, even inside most players. No need to recode them. And recoding: mp3 is a lossy format. If you turn them into wavs you have not only wavs based on reduced information, you remove the stuff that makes mp3 sound 'better' than they are. If you encode them again, you are removing more information. So after such a circle the sound quality would be worse. A lot worse. Hardly bearable worse. Just say no to recoding. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
