Is there a way to remove IDV Tags from an AIFF file?

Question

I'm working on a backend task system for a rails application running on an Ubuntu Server.

Before converting the uploaded AIFF files to FLAC, I need to strip all the possibly existing tags from it. How can I achieve that?

TagLib-Ruby doesn't have that covered for AIFF at this time. Is there another gem, a command line app or something similar that my rails app could call or do I have to code that fully on my own?

Answer 1

kid3 is an application with both gui and command line interfaces that allows edition of tags and supports several audio file formats, including aiff. You can probably script something around it in ruby and make use of it in your rails application. I am not sure if it's available in the standard ubuntu repositories, but the source code seems to include necessary metadata to build a deb (and also rpm) package, if it comes to doing it on your own.