[vorbis-dev] [fwd] CVS: ogg123 rocks! vcut no so much so... (from: wayfarer42@postmaster.co.uk)

[Beni Cherniavksy]

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Quoting Monty forwarding Michael Semon <wayfarer42 at postmaster.co.uk>:
>
> Hi!  Being impatient for RC4, I downloaded enough of cygwin so I could CVS
> ao/ogg/vorbis/vorbis-tools and transfer it to my Internet-free Linux boxen.
> [Can't there be an easier way?]  Reviews so far:
>
Nigthly cvs tar.gz snapshots?  Look on xiph.org for "download" (iirc).

> ogg123 rocks!  Before, I had to make "playlists" using symbolic links.  Now,
> I just make a playlist, like any sane human being would do.
>
As Segher once pointed out, unix tools need no playlist support:
ogg123 `cat playlist` does the job (unless you spaces in file names, I wonder
why bash has no split-by-lines command substitution variant...).  Using
ls, find, vorbiscomment instead of cat you can have dynamic playlists windows
users don't even dream of...

> I wish that ogg123 -@ *.m3u would concatenate playlists, instead of
> considering the first playlist as a playlist and the rest as failed ogg
> files.

That would be broken, it would mean the -@ treats all rememaining arguments
as playlists.  ogg123 `for f in *.m3u; do echo -@ $f; done` will produce the
needed command line.  But in the spirit of Segher's idea, ogg123 `cat *.m3u`
should work (modulo spaces, again) and ogg123 -@ <(cat *.m3u) is good too
(bash has this nifty temporal named pipe feature, don't know for other shells).

> Also, I wish there was an option for ogg123 to sort directories.  At
> least with ReiserFS on Linux, file order in a directory is basically
> random.
>
Again, ogg123 `ls *.ogg` or ogg123 `find -name '*.ogg' | sort` should do.
"A program should do one thing and do it well."


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>

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