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 >
I appreciate the education, but for my purposes, wavs are prefectly adequate and possible have the advantage of simplicity. After I rip a disk to wavs and rename them, I first take the songs I went in after and do what I need to do with them at the time. Some are now going to mp3, some remain wavs and go on mix CDs with other wavs. After my immediate needs are met, I then burn a CD with the separate wavs on it to use in the future for creating mixes or mp3 from the songs that I wasn't interested in before. This saves the time of ripping the original again and also backs it up to an extent. I can then delete the wavs from the HD and recover all the space. It's not on line, but who cares? I don't do this stuff that often. It's simple and it works. And the only lossy step is when my original comes to me as an mp3 from <cough cough cough>, and I decide to wav it back up with lame to put it on a conventional mix. OK, _I'm_ actually not losing anything, but I'm acquiring the original in a lossy state. Even so, it still sounds perfectly good to my humble ears. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
