adhawkins Wrote: > Is anyone interested in the two files I've generated? The first is just > a shell script to carry out all the steps necessary to rip to a single > tagged / CUEsheeted FLAC. The second is a bit of Perl that reads in the > _INFO.txt file generated by SmartRipper to create a CUE sheet and empty > set of tags for the file.Although it's not something I have a need for > myself, I'm sure others will be able to benefit from it, so I'd appreciate it being posted -- I've not done anything with the info file before and am interested in seeing what you're doing. > One thing I have noticed is that there seems to often be an 'extra' > chapter on the DVD (at the end). I haven't checked to see if this is > zero length (and hence could be deselected at the ripping stage) but > DVD players seem to ignore this extra chapter (or skip over it very > quickly).I've seen similar things on the DVDs I've looked at. Because the few DVD soundtrack rips I've done have been fairly manual, I've simply used my human brain to decide to skip them (I _know_ there are N tracks on this album, and so the very short ones in this collection of N+R tracks are the ones I don't want). Automation of same may be trickier... a condition which discards the final track if its length is less than so many seconds (determined from the info file?) might well be enough.
Or you could grab a software AC3 decoder and analyse the resultant audio channels, discarding if they appear silent... only a semi-serious suggestion because of the decoding required. :-) (I did something similar for my CD ripping/encoding scripts, searching for a large chunk of digital silence in the final track to identify and detach a hidden (but not separately indexed) song. It's not perfect (doesn't catch two hidden songs, or songs hidden in the penultimate track) but works for most cases and lifted a significant listening-before-encoding burden from me!) -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19260 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
