VORBISCOMMENT(T)           Vorbis Tools          VORBISCOMMENT(T)



NAME
       vorbiscomment - edits Ogg Vorbis comments


SYNOPSIS
       vorbiscomment [-l] file.ogg
       vorbiscomment -a [ -t "tag=value" ] in.ogg out.ogg
       vorbiscomment -w in.ogg out.ogg


DESCRIPTION
       vorbiscomment  reads,  modifies,  and  appends  Ogg Vorbis
       audio file metadata tags.


OPTIONS
       -a     Append comments.

       -c commentfile
              Take comments from a file. The  file  is  the  same
              format  as is output by the the -l option: one ele-
              ment per line in 'tag=value' format.

       -h     Show command help.

       -l     List the comments in the ogg vorbis file.

       -q     Quiet mode.  No messages are displayed.

       -t 'tag=value'
              Specify a new tag on the command line. Each tag  is
              given  as  a single string. The part before the '='
              is treated as the tag name and the  part  after  as
              the value.

       -w     Replace  comments  with the new set given either on
              the command line with -t or from a file with -c.


EXAMPLES
       To just see what comment tags are in a file:

           vorbiscomment -l file.ogg

       To edit those comments:

           vorbiscomment -l file.ogg > file.txt
           [edit the comments in file.txt to your statisfaction]
           vorbiscomment -w -c file.txt file.ogg newfile.ogg

       To simply add a comment:

           vorbiscomment -a -t 'ARTIST=No One You Know'  file.ogg
       newfile.ogg


SEE ALSO
       See http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html for doc-
       umentation on the Ogg Vorbis tag format, including a  sug-
       gested list of canonical tag names.


AUTHORS
       Program Authors:
              Michael Smith <msmith@labyrinth.net.au>
              Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org>


       Manpage Author:
              Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>



Xiph.org Foundation     December 24, 2001        VORBISCOMMENT(T)