[Flac-dev] deafening silence

Mark Powell M.S.Powell at salford.ac.uk
Sat Apr 7 10:03:31 PDT 2001


On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> This will post-pend id3v1 tags.  I thought they were found at the
> beginning of files.
> 
> If not, then it looks fine to me.  I may add some parentheses, though,
> like (tail -c 128 ${f} > tag) && (flac-0.8 -d $f ${f%flac}wav), etc.

Why? That just forces the commands to be run under sub-shells. Why fork an
extra shell for no reason? More efficient to leave them out.

> That decoding line should be "${f%.flac}", no "*", right?  Same with the
> encoding command:
> 	flac-0.9 -V ${f%flac}wav $f
> 
> Seem better?

You're quite correct.

> (-8 BTW, I'm on Linux Mandrake cooker, not Windows. 8-)

BTW I'm on FreeBSD :)

Later.

> 
> Thanks a lot for this, btw.
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Josh Coalson wrote:
> 
> > if your talking id3v1, something along the lines of (in bash):
> >
> > for f in *.flac ; do tail -c 128 $f > tag && flac-0.8 -d $f
> > ${f%*.flac}.wav && flac-0.9 -V ${f%*.flac}.wav $f && cat tag >> $f ;
> > done
> >
> > should work.  of course, test it before you set it loose on your
> > whole collection.
> >
> > if you're on windows, my condolences... no wait, just get cygwin :)
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > --- Asheesh Laroia <paulproteus at technologist.com> wrote:
> > > I'm actually not using 0.9 yet.  I have my CD collection archived in
> > > 0.8
> > > format, and I want to keep my ID3 tags.
> > >
> > > If someone can whip up a script that lets me extract my ID3 tags to a
> > > file
> > > for each file, decompress into WAV, then recompress into 0.9 format,
> > > then
> > > re-integrate the ID3 data, that'd be good.  Otherwise. I'll be stuck
> > > in
> > > 0.8 forever.
> > >
> > > Which I don't want....
> > >
> > > -- Asheesh.
> >
> >
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