Bug#417606: vorbis-tools: vorbiscomment manpage is unclear about
clearing tags
Clint Adams
schizo at debian.org
Wed Apr 4 01:23:14 UTC 2007
> I use vorbiscomment as a OGG backend to manipulate audio tags in my lltag tool.
> Under some circumstances, lltag might ask vorbiscomment to clear all tags from
> a file. vorbiscomment ends up being called as:
> vorbiscomment -w -q foo.ogg
> and instead of replacing current tags with nothing, it waits until we enter
> something and hit ctrl-d.
>
> I can't find any documentation about this behavior in the manpage. So it would
> be cool to add it.
If you just run "vorbiscomment" and read the usage info, that should
cover it. A patch to add appropriate verbiage to the man page would be
appreciated.
> Moreover, it would be cool to also document how to remove all tags from an OGG
> file. I understand it is not vey useful, but in case it is possible, it would be
> good to know. So far, the 'best' I found would be
> vorbiscomment -w -q foo.ogg -t 'DUMMY='
> not very nice...
: | vorbiscomment -w foo.ogg
or
vorbiscomment -w foo.ogg </dev/null
should do the trick
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