On 9/19/07, Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/19/2007 11:36 AM, Lan Barnes wrote: > > Here's what I'm doing. I'm ripping wav's from family CDs to put on my > > kid's new mp3 player. They all come out: > > > > trackNN.cdd* > > > > where NN = a track number. > > > > Up to now, I've been changing the names to the song names using mv on the > > command line. A drag. Now I'm completing a script that spills the text TOC > > (when there is one) and automatically does the renames. Too cool. The app > > will then let him select what he wants on the player, lame it up, let him > > move it over and rearrange them, etc.
If that is what you were doing, you should have mentioned it from the start. The reason that there aren't many utilities for just looking up the metadata is that usually they are integrated into the ripper/encoder programs. If you really care about the losslessness, you could use a ripper to encode flac (which can store metadata), then transcode to mp3/aac as desired with your script. If you don't care about having a lossless file around, you should just rip and encode directly to mp3 or aac. > Lan, > > Check out Grip. It rips CDs and uses one of the Internet databases to > tag the files and make file names with the title in the name. I don't > know how well it works with freedb. > Grip is pretty good, but check out abcde for some command line goodness. -- Rick -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
