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[hildebrand]

I am starting this thread with a long term perspective to put together lots of useful information for our programs.
Request all to participate in this thread to spread the word about all the lovely things that can be done on Linux.

The distribution I use is Debian (from www.debian.org) but most tricks shall be generic in nature (program based). Many of the softwares are available on windows also so some tips maybe applicable for their windows versions also.

This post has been edited by hildebrand: Oct 10 2009, 07:19 PM

[hildebrand]

Tip #4: mp3info
As mentioned by Exon, mp3info is also a very useful software. It can even be used for tag editing!


If you just want track details syntaxi is simply: mp3info <filename.mp3>

e.g.

CODE

mp3info Dil\ thandi\ hawa\ mein\ uda\ jaye_Shamshad\ \ Hamida.mp3
File: Dil thandi hawa mein uda jaye_Shamshad  Hamida.mp3
Title:   Dil Thandi Hawa Mein Uda Jaaye Track: 1
Artist:  Shamshad Begum, Hamida Bano
Album:   Shama                          Year:  1946
Comment: Ghulam Haider, Ehsan Rizvi     Genre: Oldies [11]

When used to find the technical attributes, syntax is:

mp3info -x <filename.mp3>

This gives the track details and the technical information.

e.g.

CODE

mp3info -x Dil\ thandi\ hawa\ mein\ uda\ jaye_Shamshad\ \ Hamida.mp3
File: Dil thandi hawa mein uda jaye_Shamshad  Hamida.mp3
Title:   Dil Thandi Hawa Mein Uda Jaaye Track: 1
Artist:  Shamshad Begum, Hamida Bano
Album:   Shama                          Year:  1946
Comment: Ghulam Haider, Ehsan Rizvi     Genre: Oldies [11]
Media Type:  MPEG 1.0 Layer III
Audio:       128 kbps, 44 kHz (stereo)
Emphasis:    none
CRC:         No
Copyright:   No
Original:    Yes
Padding:     Yes
Length:      2:56

The manpage of the software is available here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/mp3info.html

This post has been edited by hildebrand: Sep 20 2009, 04:00 PM