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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:09:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > Why reinvent the wheel? abcde is a shell script that does this and |
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> > much more. It uses whichever ripper, encoder etc. that you want, with |
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> > whatever options you want. |
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> I like to putter around with bash scripts. I've written up a 146-line |
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> script (83 lines of script plus 63 lines of comments) |
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abcde is a little larger than that. |
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% wc -l =abcde |
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4896 /usr/bin/abcde |
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> that handles |
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> things to *MY* specs for *MY* needs. It processes .inf and .wav files |
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> in a directory, creating flac files in a flac subdirectory. I haven't |
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> tested it under all conditions, but it tries to handle... |
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> * Check for a "flac" subdirectory; create one if it doesn't already |
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> exist |
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> * If "Tracktitle" field is empty, bail out. |
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> * If "Tracktitle" field contains a slash ("/"), assume that the artist's |
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> name is to the left of the slash, and the song name is on the right |
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> side of the slash. |
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> * If "Tracktitle" field is non-empty, but doesn't contain a "/", assume |
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> that it only has the title. |
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> - Get the artist name from the "Performer" field. |
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> - If "Performer" field is empty, use "Albumperformer" field. |
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> - If both are empty, set artist name to "Unknown". |
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> * The flac files are created in the "flac" subdirectory |
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That's pretty much what I do with abcde, except I only had to edit a |
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config file, leaving my script puttering time for wheels I need more. |
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How do you handle compilation/multi-artist CDs? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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