Re: [SLUG] I wanna...

From: Daniel Holth (dholth@fastmail.fm)
Date: Sat Aug 16 2003 - 20:10:51 EDT


On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 12:35, Eben King wrote:
> Since "cat file_1 file_2 > combined_file" works (no file header in *.ogg?
> OK), it is almost certainly better (in terms of output quality). The
> reduction in file size by "{ decode file_1 ; decode file_2 ; } | encode >
> combined_file" represents a loss of data. I was not aware that you can
> just concatenate them. That's easier than Method A.
>
> BTW, do *.ogg files store title/artist/album/etc. like *.mp3 files do?
> What's in the concatenated file?

ogg files definitely store the artist, etc. You can use the program
'ogginfo' to see which comments are in an ogg file. "ogginfo foo.ogg".
ogg/vorbis files store arbitrary (key, value) pairs. There are standard
keys like "ARTIST" and "TITLE" but you could add your own to note e.g.
beats per minute.

When playing the concatentated file with two songs in it, xmms will
display the title of the second song (read from the same file) when the
first song is done playing.

- Daniel H.

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