Currently, I surf to the dir where the 170 files are, issue "cat" followied by part of the beginning of a file's name and hit <tab>, which gives me about 2/3's of the rest of the name. I then have to start looking at names of files more closely in another window, look at their time signatures (the most pertinent piece of info, really), choose the oldest one, enter some letter from it where cat left off, and hit <tab> again to get the complete name of the first file. Then, I copy that file's name and paste it after >~/MyMusic/classical/ and strip off the more particluarized parts so I have a more generic name for my full-piece file, then hit enter. At that point, I have the beginning of the cat'd together piece, and I follow a similar procedure--but using >>~/MyMusic/classical--to cat the rest of the components of the piece together into one.
To give a more complete picture using fake names, I do something like this:
cat Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement1.mp3
~/MyMusic/classical/Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674.mp3
cat Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement2.mp3
~/MyMusic/classical/Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674.mp3
cat Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement3.mp3
~/MyMusic/classical/Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674.mp3
I then have the entire piece in a single file called Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674.mp3. Incidentally, there is alot more variation in the actual names than in these examples. For example, not very many have the movements numbered (the numeral right before .mp3). Rather, the movements are called by their more generic titles like "Adagio," "Andante," and so forth. So, not much consistency in that part of the name.
It seems like there should be a less labor-intensive way of doing this, and, it seems to me, the salient factor in such a scheme is the time of file creation rather than file name. Each file is written to the HD in the order it finishes playing from the stream I am recording, so that's really probably the easiest and surest way to join them. All movments of a given piece are all going to have been written to disk within, say, 1/2 hr of the beginning of the piece.
Problem is, I'm sort of at a loss for ideas about how this could be done. Is there a way to feed cat file creation time rather than file name? It's not really so important that the name of the file I am cat'ing be preserved, so much as that the file being cat'ed to have an informative name. So, I'm casting about for ways of automating this process of joining movements together into the full pieces of which the movements are a part. Suggestions?
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