Ripping, converting wav to (32 kbps mono) mp3 with RipperX

[MU]

no, I have no mlame here, just lame (Puppy 108)

[bugman]

Actually, I just learned something--I can drag and drop my mp3s to /usr/bin/lame and a good mp3 gets made!

My problem is I have over 100 wavs I need to convert, with complex names I wish to keep. It's gonna be a helluva lot easier dnd'ing 100 files than it is to type all that out in a terminal/ Think I'll go that way...

Thanks for your help!

[MU]

you can check, if you installed another version of lame, that causes problems.

which lame

This should report:
/usr/bin/lame

Now look in /root/.usr/bin/ if there also is a lame.
If yes, then it is not puppys lame.
delete that and reboot ( really: /root/.usr/bin/lame ,NOT /usr/bin/lame ).
Then you have back puppys lame, that is in usr_cram.fs.
Mark

[trapster]

Bugman,

In the directory with your .wav's try this:

for i in *.wav; do lame -h $i `basename $i .wav`.mp3; done

This would save the titles also.
If you have spaces in the titles try this before you convert them (it will replace spaces with underscores):

for i in *.wav; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done


I use this little script for burning my cd's.

#!/bin/bash
cd /mnt/home/music/mp3
echo "If the files have spaces in the names, we'll remove them now"
sleep 2
for i in *.mp3; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done
echo "Now we need to convert the .mp3's to .wav files"
sleep 2
for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav; done
echo "Files have been converted to .wav"
sleep 2
echo "Now we will burn them to a disc, make sure there is a blank disc in the burner"
echo "The disc tray will open when the burning is complete"
cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -text -useinfo *.wav
echo "If the tray has opened, the burn is complete"
sleep 2
echo "Now we'll delete the .wav files that were created for burning"
rm *.wav
sleep 2
echo "The burning process is now complete"

Now if I can only figure out how to extract the titles and artists into an .inf file, I could also have cd text!!

[MU]

for i in *.wav; do lame -h $i `basename $i .wav`.mp3; done

This should with spaces, too:

ls *.wav | while read i; do lame -h "$i" `basename "$i" .wav`.mp3; done

This "piping" avoids problems with spaces.
Mark

[bugman]

For whatever reason, neither of those 2 scripts worked. More excess args errors. Thanks everyone for giving it a go, I'm just going to listen to the music instead of fussing with it.

I know there's probably another thread for this sort of thing, but one of the very few Windows programs I'm longing for at the moment is called RazorLame, and I think you can guess what it does...

[MU]

Now if I can only figure out how to extract the titles and artists into an .inf file, I could also have cd text!!

this looks interesting:
http://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/

[MU]

Dotpup:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=44615#44615

[Flash]

Hey, that looks like a possibe solution to the problem of cataloging my mp3 books, except I need to adjust the rank of the fields (I want the Artist/Author most important, followed by the Album/Book. The track info is unimportant for audio books.) Also I'd need to add new Genres.

[MU]

gmp3info is intended to modify the entries IN the .mp3-file.

If you want to get these informations to be used in a database, you would need to write a script, that uses the comandlineversion (mp3info).

The Help-page explains, what parameters you have to add, to extract single fields from the ID3-tags (the text in the mp3).

So you could write such a script (just structure, not executable):

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for each mp3file in thisfolder
 values = mp3info mp3file -autor -title -album
 echo values >> database.txt
end for

If you would write the script so, that it creates CSV (Comma Seperated Values), then you could import the database.txt to gnumeric or OpenOffice Calc:
Jackson Michael;Thriller;Greatest Hits

I'm currently too tired to write that.
But if you find out the corrected syntax for mp3info and tell me, how an example-CSV should look like, I could write a small Puppybasic-program tomorrow.

Mark

[trapster]

This is the .inf file that cdroast creates in the directory of the mp3 or wav that you're burning with cdtext. The only problem is I usually have to type everything into cdroast for the text.

#
# X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha15 - INF-File
# created: Mon Mar 6 17:38:31 2006
# by: root@puppypc
#
file = "/mnt/home/music/mp3/Metallica_-_Turn_The_Page.wav"
title = "Turn the Page"
artist = "Metallica"

I believe this is for tao only which is only what I have tried. I think I read somewhere that dao uses a table of contents or something.

It would be nice to have a script that would create the .inf file for each song for the cdtext.

It would be ideal to pick your songs from an .mp3 directory and have it convert/burn/include the cdtext all at once.