Vanity - Manipulating ID3 Tags

[Marak]

Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to manipulate the copyright bit of an ID3 tag? I am creating audiobook mp3 files of my fantasy novels, and I cannot find a way to set that bit.

[Marak]

Any help would be appreciated.

[mnehring]

http://help.godaddy.com/article/3319

[ElkGroveDan]

Actually this post belongs in the Tech Support Vanity section....assuming you have paid for a subscription and don’t mind waiting on hold with the Freeper Tech in Calcutta.

[Keme]

If you’re a windows user, the best program in my experience has been mediamonkey

great series of articles at lifehacker.com

http://lifehacker.com/software/album-art/alpha-geek-whip-your-mp3-library-into-shape-part-iii-metadata-233336.php

[Ben Mugged]

Any program you can use to set it, a user can use to clear it.

[Marak]

Any program you can use to set it, a user can use to clear it.

Understood. The purpose of setting it is to tell an honest person that it is copyrighted. Anyone who seeks to change it will not be swayed by such trivialities as the law.

[kingu]

A second on the MediaMonkey program.

My second favorite feature (after the ID3 editing abilities that are easy and quick, especially on large groups of files) is the ability to transcode to different formats when synching. Third favorite is the media library features that help me organize my files.

[jameslalor]

What I use on Linux is a program called EasyTAG. It’s a powerful, free tool for setting tags on a variety of file types. I believe they have a windows version as well.

http://easytag.sourceforge.net/

[Marak]

Thanks for pointing me to MediaMonkey. It appears to be an excellent program, but it does not appear to be able to toggle the copyright bit.

[Keme]

Sorry, hopefully someone more knowledgeable will reply. Good luck with your project!

[Marak]

EasyTag is another good program, but it, too, is geared to building collections rather than creating new mp3s. It doesn’t address the issue of the copyright bit.

I am beginning to wonder if I am banging my head against a brick wall. Anyways, thanks for your help!

[CutePuppy]

You can try MP3 Producer (shareware, not free) from this link http://www.mp3developments.com/mp3producer.php or elsewhere.

Failing that, you can ask someone to create a simple Visual Basic or elementary C++ program that can either handle batch operations parameters (e.g. my*.mp3) itself or can be used in batch mode with a single file parameter, to find and set/reset the Copyright bit in ID3 tag info, possibly using this structure and calls - http://docjar.com/docs/api/joeshmoe/mpeg/MPEGInfo.html.

Hope it helps.

[Marak]

Thanks for the help. I downloaded MP3 Producer and gave it a look. Like the others, it does not address the copyright bit. I will have to keep searching.

[CutePuppy]

Sorry it didn’t work.

This program (AB MP3 Encoder) claims to be able to set the bit (don’t know if standalone or part of the processing / encoding, but you might be able to talk author into doing something you need):
http://www.exefind.com/ab-mp3-encoder-P850.html

And here you can find a working sample on how to set the bit through VB script - it should be very easy to modify to suit your purposes by anyone with VB experience :
http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/VBasic/107959/107959/ReadMessage.aspx

Good luck.

[Marak]

Thanks for the help Cute Puppy. I was not able to download Encoder (got an error on the link), but downloaded their tag editor. It did not address the copyright bit, but I think I may have discovered a way to do it. The LAME encoder has the option if you run it at DOS command level using the ‘-c’ switch. Hopefully the quality will not suffer by converting the file twice, but at least I now have a way to do what I need to to.

Thanks again for the help.