Goals: 1. Store meta data 2. Be able to recreate and burn bit-for-bit accurate audio CDs from archive. 3. Be able to "generate" lossy format files (OggVorbis,MP3,etc) with meta info intact when needed. 4. One file per song. 5. Files playable in XMMS and WinAMP3. Questions: Q1. OGG vs FLAC container? Q2. Meta data format? Q3. In detail, how does one do goal 2? Q4. What ripping/encoding software? Regarding goal 3, above, I wrote flac2mp3.pl available at: http://www.gurulabs.com/files/flac2mp3.pl Ideas on a clean way to safely handle malicious meta data warmly welcomed. Dax Kelson
--- Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com> wrote:> Goals: > > 1. Store meta data > 2. Be able to recreate and burn bit-for-bit accurate audio CDs from > archive. > 3. Be able to "generate" lossy format files (OggVorbis,MP3,etc) with > meta info intact when needed. > 4. One file per song. > 5. Files playable in XMMS and WinAMP3. > > Questions: > Q1. OGG vs FLAC container?native FLAC> Q2. Meta data format?vorbis comments; that is the only official tagging method> Q3. In detail, how does one do goal 2?depends on how you're encoding. if you're starting with EAC rips try searching on hydrogenaudio.org for tips. you can pass tags in on the flac command-line (see docs) or use a tagger afterward (see software links on main page).> Q4. What ripping/encoding software?again, this question is too general. you didn't even mention what operating system. starting points are EAC (www.exactaudiocopy.de), cdex (www.cdex.n3.net), cdparanoia (xiph.org), plextools, and cdrdao.> Ideas on a clean way to safely handle malicious meta data warmly > welcomed.you mean like the id3 exploit in winamp? that's a player problem. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Josh Coalson wrote:> > Q3. In detail, how does one do goal 2? > > depends on how you're encoding. if you're starting with EAC > rips try searching on hydrogenaudio.org for tips. you can > pass tags in on the flac command-line (see docs) or use a tagger > afterward (see software links on main page). > > > Q4. What ripping/encoding software? > > again, this question is too general. you didn't even mention > what operating system. starting points are EAC > (www.exactaudiocopy.de), cdex (www.cdex.n3.net), cdparanoia > (xiph.org), plextools, and cdrdao.I would be using Red Hat Linux 9 plus whatever software addons I needed. Generally, I know what needs to be done. I'm just trying to come up with the best/recommended way. Part of the problem is that there is so many software packages that overlap each other in functionality. Thanks, Dax