On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 00:34 +1300, Robert Jeffares wrote: 
> you can set start and end dates and times by putting the data in the 
> filename as in
> 
> news-item2-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS,YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-pope.wav
> 
> then run rdimport in a shell script including a line like
> startdate=$(cut -d- -f3 
> <<<"news-item2-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS,YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-pope.wav")
> starttime=$(cut -d- -f4 
> <<<"news-item2-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS,YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-pope.wav")
...

Thanks for the tip.  For some reason the man pages didn't come through
when I loaded 2.10.3 onto a new testing machine and I assumed rdimport
hadn't changed WRT usage.

BTW: while I was looking for an audio tool that might do cart chunk
stuff I came across "Hindenburg Broadcaster", a Windows/Mac tool that
seems optimized for wrangling assorted dialog chunks into news bites and
stories.  I hadn't heard of it before.  It looks promising but doesn't
work under wine, at least not for me.


  JE



> On 25/09/15 11:32, John Edstrom wrote:
> > According to the documents its rdimport can set cut start/end dates in
> > the arguments, but it also says:
> >    ...  If the imported file does not reference a start date, create with
> > startdate/enddate offset ...
> >
> > How does an input file "reference" start/end dates?  The
> > metadata-pattern doesn't mention fields for this.  Does rdimport read
> > ID3 tags or something?
> >
> >    JE
> 

-- 
John Edstrom <[email protected]>
Firebare

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