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