On Wed, September 19, 2007 3:22 pm, Rick Funderburg wrote: > 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
At last someone understands! I was under the impression that wav's were lossless. Evidently not? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
