[Anonymous]

I'm using Metaflac to tag a bunch of files.

Usually I do something like this:

$ metaflac --set-vc-property=PERFORMER="Georg
Solti" *.flac

and that does what it looks like: it adds a PERFORMER
property to each FLAC file in this folder.

Sometimes, for various reasons, I don't want to use
--set-vc-property; instead, I want to use
--import-vc-from. But a line like this doesn't do what
it appears to:

$ echo "PERFORMER=Georg Solti" | metaflac
--import-vc-from=- *.flac

That does something very different: it adds a PERFORMER
property to the first file (ASCIIbetically) in this
folder only. The others are unchanged.

There's nothing in the metaflac(1) manpage to indicate
that this feature doesn't work on multiple files, or
that it works differently than --set-vc-property.
(There's also no warning or error printed to indicate
that it didn't set the property on most of the files
you specified.)

- ken@bitpoetry.com

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It appears to do this for stdin only:
"--import-vc-from=myfile *.flac" works fine but
"--import-vc-from=- *.flac" tags only one file.

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that is exactly right. the bug is that metaflac is
opening/reading/closing the comment file for each FLAC
file, which won't work for stdin. this may also be a
problem for other commands that accept stdin. I will fix
it for the next release.

Josh

• status: open --> open-accepted

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have to push the fix out for this to after FLAC 1.1.2 due
to time constraints...

Josh

• priority: 5 --> 6

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ok, making it work for multiple input files is too much pain
for 1.1.3, for now I at least fixed the docs to reflect it
and added an error for it in metaflac.

• status: open-accepted --> closed-fixed