help with joining files

2005-04-15 Thread James Miller
Flemming's script did the job of getting wierd characters out of file names for me, so that part of dealing with these recordings is nicely resolved. Just run the comand in the dir where the files are, and in about a second you have renamed 170 files. Now, if cat'ing them together were even 1/1

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread James Miller
Thanks for offering that, Flemming. Modifying the original script per your directions does, indeed, seem to get rid of the other extraneous characters. I ran it in a test directory, and the results seem to get just what I was hoping for. I think I'll go ahead and run it in the real directory no

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread James Miller
Thanks for your input, Ray. On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: 1. See if the app "mp3wrap" (that's the Debian-Sid package name) helps in any way relevant to your problem. Ok. I'll check that. 2. Consider using playlists rather than joining the files. If you use xmms for playback, it has a

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread Flemming Greve Skovengaard
James Miller wrote: I tried your perl script and it works really well, Flemming. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I see it works for all files in a given directory--exactly what I need. Now, in place of something like Patrick\ Cohen\ \&\ Mosaiques\ Quartet\ -\ Quintet\ For\ Piano\ \&\ St

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread chuck gelm
James Miller wrote: 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\

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread J.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote: I tried your perl script and it works really well, Flemming. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I see it works for all files in a given directory--exactly what I need. Now, in place of something like Patrick\ Cohen\ \&\ Mosaiques\ Quartet\ -\ Quintet

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:04 AM 4/15/2005 -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

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread James Miller
I tried your perl script and it works really well, Flemming. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I see it works for all files in a given directory--exactly what I need. Now, in place of something like Patrick\ Cohen\ \&\ Mosaiques\ Quartet\ -\ Quintet\ For\ Piano\ \&\ Strings\ In\ D\ Major\

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread Peter
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 dr

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread Flemming Greve Skovengaard
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 clos

convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread James Miller
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 myt

Re: remote admin

2005-04-15 Thread Peter
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:02 -0500, Eric Bambach wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Eric Bambach wrote: > > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration > > > but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. > > > > Getting a GUI interface for

Using the touchpad on my laptop

2005-04-15 Thread larsene
Hi everyones, I have a laptop on wich one i have installed debian. My problem is that i can use my touchpad for mouving the cursor, and the buttons under it for left and right click, but i cannot use the "quick touch" fonctionnality (used on windows) for clicking without using the button. How can

Problem booting linux from a Win2000 laptop

2005-04-15 Thread Vanitha Ramaswami
Hi All, I have a Acer Laptop which has Win2000 installed in it. I installed redhat linux in it (/dev/hda5)..But i am not able to boot the linux. I restarted the Laptop putting the Linux Boot CD (dont have floppy drive), i am getting the installtion screen. I dont know how to boot the linux whic