Vorbis - Jan 2002 - >Why not use OggDrop? Going for managed bitrates? Tagging?

>Why not use OggDrop? Going for managed bitrates? Tagging?
>        If you really must know (and I don't think it matters) I use
oggdrop because I want to
> encode a batch of files without requiring user intervention between each
file, and because I do  lot of tagging.
>        Besides, I don't see how oggdrop is going to HELP me encode the
entire CD to Ogg Vorbis. It's certainly much
> less automated than oggenc.
> SyP wrote:
>> It isn't necessary to encode the full CD at once, is it? You could
do
>> well with multiple lines, like:
>> oggenc -N "01" -q 4 --artist="Dido"
--title="Here With Me" --album="No Angel" -d
"2001" -n "%%n %%t.ogg" track01.wav
>> oggenc -N "02" -q 4 --artist="Dido"
--title="Hunter" --album="No Angel" -d "2001" -n
"%%n %%t.ogg" track02.wav
>        That's a good idea, but it would increase the size of my batch
file tremendously, because then I'd have to specify a pageful
> (a  pageful in the ogg info viewer, not batch file) of comments for EACH
track, and that would be much more maintenance than
> working  with a single line.
>        It would be wonderful if DOS had some kind of escape character.
Nice, simple, and elegant. But I guess those words don't
> really apply to DOS... (*shrug*)
I don't think an escape character would help, the limitation is in the
length of the line that command.com can process.
(126 characters IIRC).

The solution I use is the dos FOR loop. e.g.
FOR %%1 IN (*.wav) DO oggenc -q 4 --artist="Dido"  --album="No
Angel" -d "2001" %%1
The song titles are unique so there's no time saved by using a batch file; I
do them after encoding.

If you want to got the multil-line route, you could use string constants, for
example:

et sw=-q4 -n "%%n %%t.ogg"
set a="Dido"
set l="No Angel"
set y="2001"
set t1="Here With Me"
set t2="Hunter"
set t3="Don't Think Of Me"
oggenc track01.wav -N "01" --artist=%a% --album=%l% -d %y% %sw%
--title=%t1%
oggenc track02.wav -N "02" --artist=%a% --album=%l% -d %y% %sw%
--title=%t2%
oggenc track03.wav -N "03" --artist=%a% --album=%l% -d %y% %sw%
--title=%t3%

It would make for a big batch file, but you would only have to edit the top
half.

Otherwise you could try a more sophisticated command interperter such as 4dos or
Cygwin's version of bash.

Chris Wise

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At 02:22 1/7/2002, you wrote:
>The solution I use is the dos FOR loop. e.g.
>FOR %%1 IN (*.wav) DO oggenc -q 4 --artist="Dido" 
--album="No Angel" -d "2001" %%1
>The song titles are unique so there's no time saved by using a batch
file; I do them after encoding.
<p>This is wonderful, Christopher.
        One last question: is there a way to use the loop control variable value
inside the loop? Since the loop counter begins with one and is incrementing each
time (I'm assuming), I should probably use that value as the track number
and serial number to save myself time later.
        Is there a way to do that, like in C/C++'s for() loop?

        Thanks.

                                                        -- Philip.
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> This is wonderful, Christopher.
>        One last question: is there a way to use the loop control variable
value inside the loop? Since
> the loop counter begins with one and is incrementing each time (I'm
assuming), I should probably
>  use  that value as the track number and serial number to save myself time
later.
>        Is there a way to do that, like in C/C++'s for() loop?
You can do something like this:
set sw=-q4
set a="Dido"
set l="No Angel"
set y="2001"
for %%c in (01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12) do oggenc track%%c.wav -N
"%%c" --artist=%a% --album=%l% -d %y% %sw%

Chris Wise

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