On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 10:04 -0500, James Miller wrote: > Among various frustrations recently I've had the gratifying success of > learning how to use streamripper to augment my music collection. > Streamripper is a program that writes an audio stream (e.g., from internet > radio) to your hard drive as an mp3 file. This is about the closest thing > to the mythical "Rivo" (Tivo for radio) that currently exists, I think, > and could maybe serve as the basis for a *real* Rivo-type program, should > someone really decide to develop one. > > Despite the success, there are some problems--mainly having to do with > file names. I've found a nice commercial-free classical (Baroque) station > and have been happily recording away for the last 24 hrs or so. The > streamripper program was evidently written for rock or more popular genres > and tries to detect breaks between songs so as to make discrete files from > them. For whatever strange reason, it has a problem detecting beginnings > and endings between movements in classical music (despite the noticeable > pause) and wants to break between movements about 30 seconds into the next > movement, rather than at the pause. The cat command seems to fix this, > though: > > cat movement1.mp3 >full-piece.mp3 > cat movement2.mp3 >>full-piece.mp3 > cat movement3.mp3 >>full-piece.mp3 > > The breaks at 30 seconds into the following movement are hardly even > noticeable in the full-piece.mp3 (I don't have the kind of purist > standards I used to when it comes to audio quality, though). > > But, on to file names. unfortunately, the names for the pieces I'm > recording from this station follow Windows long-file-naming conventions. > Even worse, the names tend to be quite complex and long. Here are a couple > of examples: > > Anton\ Reicha-\ Albert\ Schweitzer\ Quintett\ -\ Wind\ Quintet\ No.9\ > in\ D\ major\ Op.91\ No.3-\ Finale-\ Allegretto.mp3 > > Patrick\ Cohen\ \&\ Mosaiques\ Quartet\ -\ Quintet\ For\ Piano\ \&\ > Strings\ In\ D\ Major\,\ Op.565\,\ G411\ -.\ Andante\ Come\ > Prima.mp3 > > Feeding those names to cat so I can join the movements into a single file > is going to be a major pain in the wazoo, as they say down at symphony > hall. What I was hoping to find is a script that would automatically > convert all the wierd characters into more standard Unix file-naming > characters. But so far I've come up empty-handed. Can anyone point me to > some utility that might do what I need? > > As a last resort, I might try to write my own script. I'm not too hot on > doing that though, since I'm at an extremely rudimentary level when it > comes to script writing. If it comes to that, could someone maybe help me > get started by giving an example for a script that would do the renaming I > want? I'd like to retain the bulk of the information, though I don't mind > truncating words at, say 5 letters. I suppose the main thing would be > replaing all the spaces and/or punctuation with dashes and/or underscores. > > Thanks, James
I just tried this with some mp3 tracks I have here: cat Really\ Annoying\ File <hit tab key> Second Ultra\ Irritating\ File <hit tab key> > testfile.mpg Seems to work and saves a lot of typing. Of course if you have a large number of such files even this could get to be a pain, I guess. By the way, since you like Streamripper, have a look at Streamtuner: http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/ It integrates with Streamripper for click-the-button recording of streams. Very nice app - the latest version includes a number of sources as indices, including Xiph, Shoutcast and Live365 as well as a complete index of your local files, each of these categories having its own tab. Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
