I think you are on the right track. Search for a renaming utility on http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=mp3+name or sourceforge.net. Depending on your distro, you may have some renaming utilities as precompiled binaries. I use gentoo which has at least krename and detox for renaming files. Most renaming tools are scripts which don't require compiling.
I think winamp is still capable for streaming, just doesn't seem to have a long history of streaming .m4a files. BTW, you can't fool it by renaming .m4a -> .mp3, winamp reads the headers and will get confused. Seems to me that your optimal solution is to convert .m4a -> (.ogg || .mp3) and wait for technology to catch up. On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:39:04PM -0500, kracker wrote: > True Mark, > > Ogg is a better format both in technical quality and software freedom ;) > > I fear I have (perhaps incorrectly) chosen convenience in the past > over freedom :| > > My number one reason behind this choice is that I do not know of a > free software program which can convert my mp3 files which have very > wickedly ugly (and very command line / bash) unfriendly file names > (space, dash, etc) into an alternate format like the Ogg format. > > While I respect and enjoy the inference behind your query, I submit > back to the world. > Does one know of a free software program which i can invoke on a > directory with a hierarchy of directories and files which file names > which have characters which must normally be escaped when manipulating > them in a GNU/LInux System for example renaming the file using the > bash shell via ssh? If I only had a access to such a program (as I am > not entirely sure how one would build such a program, off hand) I > would gladly make the conversion of my entire archive :) > > On 5/24/05, Mark Mykkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried it out with .m4a files. It appears to be an > > issue with the player AFAICT. I tried it with winamp. > > Seems to have no problem with .ogg. Isn't Ogg a > > better format anyways? > > Well, I think your very right, I found the cause to my current > breakdowns just after my last post ... > > It seems my past personal favorite, (non-free) audio player, Winamp > has only just recently begun to support the most basic of M4A audio > streaming... > > Re: Winamp 5.04: Changelog : http://www.winamp.com/player/version_history.php > * added basic streaming (download) support for M4A/MP4 HTTP streams > > Which seems to tell me that Winamp is still fairly immature when it > comes to streaming files (perhaps incorrectly labeled with a .m4a > extension when the content of the audio file is really mp3)? Which > also seems to lack the ability to con troll some of this download > instead of stream behavior via settings ... Suddenly this seems > strangely familiar to me, weird. > > //kracker > > Bush : Everything Zen > FSF : Bradley M Kuhn : Software Freedom and the GNU Generation > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gnump3d-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnump3d-users
