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I've got a bunch of flac files and need to report their length. With MP3s, you use `mp3info -x $filename` But is there a way to find out the length (minutes:seconds or just seconds) of a flac audio file, without converting it to WAV first? Thanks! -- Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby http://www.cdbaby.com <-- best new independent music http://www.hostbaby.com <-- web hosting for musicians

...write a little > utility to do so. (I may end up doing it one day if nobody else does.) > And then you won't lose the stuff in the pregap on live CDs, and it also > makes the storage and naming easier to deal with. Interesting! I'll look into it. Thansk for the tip. -- Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby http://www.cdbaby.com <-- best new independent music http://www.hostbaby.com <-- web hosting for musicians

...ipt where the person can enter our unique SKU for that CD, it shows it on the screen to confirm it's the correct SKU, then they click GO. But definitely doing them as individual songs. Not as a whole CD. We need the separate songs for working with services like iTunes + Rhapsody. -- Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby http://www.cdbaby.com <-- best new independent music http://www.hostbaby.com <-- web hosting for musicians

...ipping and archiving. I'll do a more formal press release for ya in a couple months as we're further along, but just wanted to let you guys know. This isn't an online thing, just an offline backup system, for long-term use when CDs aren't the main music format anymore. -- Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby http://www.cdbaby.com <-- best new independent music http://www.hostbaby.com <-- web hosting for musicians

...config.h file gets the line #define INET6 1 The link then fails with /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _freehostent _getipnodebyaddr Removing the definition of INET6 from config.h and rebuilding resolved the problem. [A search of the rsync.mbox archives shows this reported in mail from Derek Sivers <cdbaby@mac.com> of Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:20:02 -0600 and followups, with the suggestion to use --disable-ipv6. I'd still rather have it build out-of-the-box without the need for additional configure switches.] There were then two failures in the test suite: ----- chgrp log follows + fr...

Using newest rsync on Mac OS X: Why would THIS work: rsync -avze ssh derek@mydomain.com:/home/derek/digitize.pub ./ But THIS immediately shoot back a "No match" error: rsync -avze ssh derek@mydomain.com:/home/derek/*.pub ./ The 2nd example doesn't even try to log in. Rsync just immediately shoots back this error: rsync: No match. Wildcard DOES work locally: THIS WORKS: rsync

...if some beta/CVS versions of OGG encoders can make 20k sound that good yet? I'd love to do the switch, and help promote ogg files to the world. (We get 100,000 unique users a week, listening to the RealAudio clips now. I'd love to get all of them to go download ogg plugins.) -- Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby http://www.cdbaby.com <-- best new independent music http://www.hostbaby.com <-- web hosting for musicians * = (Stupid Fucking Evil Real Audio.) --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe fr...

...as RealAudio for lo-fi, right? I'm DYING to ditch RealAudio from our site! Hell if Ogg can sound that good on a 33.6k modem, I'll go be an Ogg evangelist to 30,000 musicians and 200,000 customers. But I haven't been able to do it yet. Can anyone help? <p><p> -- Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby http://www.cdbaby.com <-- best new independent music http://www.hostbaby.com <-- web hosting for musicians --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vo...

Did anyone have any luck compiling rsync 2.5.2, from source, on Mac OS X? Doing a straight ./configure && make, I get the error below. I've searched the lists here with no luck. Any pointers, or any URL with more info would be great. Thanks! RSYNC 2.5.2 COMPILING ERROR ON MAC OS X: root# make Please ignore warnings below about mktemp -- it is used in a safe way cc -g -O2

Is there any reason to avoid using postgresql for small web apps? That is, is it''s overhead so large that the lighter MySQL will work substantially better for small apps on small machines? Or are they very similar in performance and configuration? I''ve used MySQL but postgresql has its appeals and I''m wondering if I need to keep MySQL around at all. On the other