Re: help with joining files

2005-04-17 Thread James Miller
I've discovered that ls -tr is what I need to get the files listed in the right time sequence (time of creation). ls -t gives, for example: Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.4_Rondo_-_Andante.mp3 Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.3_Minuetto.mp3 Boccherini_-_Quintet_for

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: BTW, what station are you recording? Perhaps I should give it a try, though my tastes in classical music run more to a mix of early stuff like Bach and some of the Romantics. http://61.74.65.198:8000 Good sound quality, no commercials or DJ chat. So far

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:07 PM 4/16/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote: Hello Ray: On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: options for streamripper? I just read its man page, and that says the app has these options available: -a [file] Rip to single file. Won't using these option avoid the problem

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread James Miller
Hello Ray: On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: options for streamripper? I just read its man page, and that says the app has these options available: -a [file] Rip to single file. Won't using these option avoid the problem you have in the first place? I'm not sure. I did

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
Just a couple of minor comments, James. First, though, a preliminary question: have you looked at the command-line options for streamripper? I just read its man page, and that says the app has these options available: -a [file] Rip to single file. The default mode of

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote: I don't really need file permissions information, so using the -l switch is overkill. But so far I have not determined how I can get the time information I need without the other, file permission info. I've found the -t switch to give me the time info I ne

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread J.
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote: > Thanks for your response, J. I'm faced with a fairly complex task here. I > suppose a more reasonable man would say, "heck with this. I'm gonna go buy > myself some CD's." But if I were a more reasonable man, I wouldn't be > using Linux, now would I? .

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread James Miller
Thanks for your response, J. I'm faced with a fairly complex task here. I suppose a more reasonable man would say, "heck with this. I'm gonna go buy myself some CD's." But if I were a more reasonable man, I wouldn't be using Linux, now would I? . . . :) Some of what you're saying is a bit beyon

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread J.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote: > 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 f

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