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.TH VORBISCOMMENT 1 "December 24, 2001" "Xiph.org Foundation" "Vorbis Tools"

.SH NAME
vorbiscomment \- edits Ogg Vorbis comments

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B vorbiscomment
.RB [ -l ]
.I file.ogg
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.B vorbiscomment
.B -a
.B [ -c commentfile | -t \*(lqtag=value\*(rq ]
.RB [ -q ]
.I in.ogg
.I [out.ogg]
.br
.B vorbiscomment
.B -w
.B [ -c commentfile | -t \*(lqtag=value\*(rq ]
.RB [ -q ]
.I in.ogg
.I [out.ogg]

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

.SH OPTIONS
.IP "-a"
Append comments.
.IP "-c commentfile"
Take comments from a file. The file is the same format as is output by the the -l option: one element per line in 'tag=value' format.
.IP "-h"
Show command help.
.IP "-l"
List the comments in the ogg vorbis file.
.IP "-q"
Quiet mode.  No messages are displayed.
.IP "-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.
.IP "-w"
Replace comments with the new set given either on the command line with -t or from a file with -c.

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.SH 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

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

.SH AUTHORS

.TP
Program Authors:
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Michael Smith <msmith@xiph.org>
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Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org>
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.TP
Manpage Author:
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Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>