[linux-audio-user] Music made with Linux

[Jan Depner]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:54 +1100, Conrad Parker wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:33:39PM -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> > 
> >     Speaking of which, how could I mark the song as licensed under
> > Creative Commons non-commercial/attribution license.  I have no idea how
> > to place that in the id3 tag or anywhere else.
> 
> Creative Commons have the basic info about this here:
> 
>   http://creativecommons.org/technology/mp3
> 
> Some tools for manipulating ID3 tags are listed on freshmeat:
> 
>   http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=id3
> 
> For oggs:
> 
>   http://creativecommons.org/technology/ogg
> 
> A bit more detail:
> 
>   http://blog.kfish.org/creativecommons/ogg-tagging.html
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Conrad.

Conrad,

    All good stuff.  Unfortunately, 1) the Creative Commons page wants
me to set up a license verification page on my web site (a transient
place at best), 2) ccLookup and Publisher listed on the Creative Commons
page are not available for Linux, 3) I can get none of the mp3 tools on
freshmeat to build (all have compiler errors, most don't have configure,
make, make install builds), 4) using the available command line id3v2 I
still have only 30 characters for a comment (which is why it has (c)
2005 Jan and Jenn Depner instead of Copyright (c) 2005 Jan and Jennifer
Depner).  So, my questions come down to a couple of simple ones.  Is
there some way to get xmms or id3v2 to place a huge comment in the id3
tag?  Can I just put a link in that comment to the Creative Commons page
for the proper license (and, if so, what guarantee is there that that
page will remain in place)?



-- 
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
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