A subscriber to a mailing list I'm on asked whether or not there was a utility to convert MP3 files to OGG files that converts the ID3 tags to OGG's comments format. While I don't have a utility to convert the files - and she did - I do have some code being used on OSMusic that recognizes the tags and writes them back to the file - and she didn't!
So I whipped up a quick application in VB called Media Tag Converter that will take an MP3 and an OGG file in the same directory and copy the tag for the most basic elements (title, author, album, track, genre, and comments) over from one to the other.
Admittedly, the code is terrible. I whipped it up in like half an hour, and literally copied and pasted the class modules from ASP files sitting on my server. I then went through and made it so it would work in VB. There are, however, no guarantees.
The program is also very untested, so if you check this out, expect to have to debug things. The program is also very slow, because the loading of the files does things that don't involve ID3 tags - such as calculating the bitrate of the files via brute force. Mostly, this is just an example program to show how MP3 & OGG tagging solutions can be programmatically handled.
On an off topic note, I got the job in the Williams Tower in Houston. When the weather becomes less hazy, I'll throw some snaps of the view from my phone up here.
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In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212