http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/21/id3-tag-remover/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/21/id3-tag-remover/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:45:33 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9229 There is usually no need to remove the so called ID3 tags of audio files. Actually there are only two scenarios that do make sense. The first is if you encounter lots of audio files with wrong ID3 tags and the second if you want to remove either ID3v1 or ID3v2 tags from the audio files to ensure that all use the same tagging method. ID3 tags make it possible to store meta data in audio files. Meta data includes the song title, the album and artist among other information.

ID3 Kill is a free Windows software that can recursively scan through directories and perform file operations on audio files.

Usage is pretty straightforward. You point it at a directory and check a few boxes to configure the options. It is possible to include subdirectories in the scan. The main options are to remove ID3v1 and / or ID3v2 tags from all encountered audio files.

Other options include to clean m3u and pls playlists, to ignore file attributes or to display a message after the run is finished.

Tags: audio files, audio meta data, clean id3, id3 kill, id3 tag, ID3 Tag Remover, meta data, mp3 files, music

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/21/id3-tag-remover/feed/ 7 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/31/technical-information-of-video-and-audio-files/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/31/technical-information-of-video-and-audio-files/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:15:11 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/31/technical-information-of-video-and-audio-files/ Your friend said it is a great movie but the damn thing won´t play in your computer. The screen remains black and you hear no audio at all. Many users tend to download a huge codec package and install it on their system. Sure, the movie most likely plays fine after this method but it seems a bit like an overkill if installing one single codec would have lead to the same result.

MediaInfo scans a video or audio file and displays its technical and tag information. Information include general information like title, author and duration but also relevant information about the audio and video codec used to create the file. The freeware provides a link to a player who is playing that file and a link to the codec if you already have a favorite player.

The supported formats list is to large to be listed here at ghacks, take a look at the MediaInfo supported formats list for a complete listing. A similar tool is Gspot which offers basically the same functionality and is freeware as well.

Both tools offer in depth information about the analysed file which help if you encounter other problems, for example bitrate related problems.

Tags: audio files, multimedia information, video files

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