CarstenBreuerCBLex@openwin.de
2004-Sep-10 16:45 UTC
[Flac-dev] Multimedia library and shell extension
Hi all, im new on this list, so greetings to all of the great developers of flac. Last year i had started to grab all my CDs to my server and to put them in the basement. We have now the time where the hard drives are so cheap, that we dont't need the CD anymore. Nonetheless it makes a lot and a lot and a lot of work to grab all the CDs. I wanted to have them lossless to make this works ONCE. MP3 is currently perhaps a good technologie, but it is out dated in some years. After some time of grabbing i run out of hard drive space and i had to make a decission: Buy a second hard drive, use a drive compressor or change the audio format. I have changed to flac and have converted all wav files to flac. This take some weeks, because i use compression ratio 8. Here is my data: 94,7 GigaByte before flac (1GB=10000...) 59,1 GigaByte after flac (1GB=10000...) Im planing to upgrade my server in the next tree years to a capacity of 1T (1000 GB). The great times of flac are comming now and it will be interesting to use it. developments like the AudioTron goes in the right way. OK, a long story. Here comes what i want: Since flac doesn't have any recurse functions, a batch or something like this is needed. Linux users have a powerfull shell to do it, but under the DOS box there is sometimes a big problem with the names. I have changed a project of mine to execute flac recurse over a directory. This was quick and dirty, but works fine. Im thinking of to write a shell extension to handle flac and other multimedia files in the windows explorer and perhaps also under KDE. I have written one for Windows (CBShellExt <see sf.net>), but have now idea if and how it works under KDE. Is anyone here with the same interest? Thanks, Carsten
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:52:09PM +0200, CarstenBreuerCBLex@openwin.de wrote:> Here comes what i want: > > Since flac doesn't have any recurse functions, a batch or something like > this is needed. Linux users have a powerfull shell to do it, but under the > DOS box there is sometimes a big problem with the names. I have changed a > project of mine to execute flac recurse over a directory. This was quick > and dirty, but works fine. > > Im thinking of to write a shell extension to handle flac and other > multimedia files in the windows explorer and perhaps also under KDE. I > have written one for Windows (CBShellExt <see sf.net>), but have now idea > if and how it works under KDE.You can use cygwin32 on Windows to script things as you would on a Unix system. For example: find /directory/with/WAVs -name '*.wav' | xargs flac -8 -V --delete-input-file would very simply compress them all, verify and then delete the .wav. It also handles long filenames much more gracefully than the standard DOS command interpreter. But the easiest thing to do is to use a CD audio extractor ('ripper') which can compress to FLAC right away (grip does this on Unix platforms). That way you don't have to deal with large directories of WAV files in the first place. -- - mdz