similar to: command-line flac tool to report song length?

Hey FLAC gang - Just thought you'd like to know CD Baby has switched to FLAC for archiving the 40,000 CDs we have in stock. Luckily HD space is down below $1/gig so we got a 6-terabyte RAID-5 box set up for about $7000. Got the FreeBSD boxes churning away night and day, ripping and archiving. I'll do a more formal press release for ya in a couple months as we're further along, but

> Actually, I was more interested in how you set up the disk array. I think we just set up 3ware IDE raid cards with 200-gig drives, all on 1 PC for now (3/4 slots) and seems to work OK. No case would fit them so it's just sprawled out on a desk away from everything else with 4 power supplies powering the drives. When it's time to buy more disks then I'll have to set up a

> > Just thought you'd like to know CD Baby has switched to FLAC for > > archiving the 40,000 CDs we have in stock. > > Luckily HD space is down below $1/gig so we got a 6-terabyte RAID-5 > > box set up for about $7000. > > Well, even if you do have a lot of Morton Feldman (currently my record > for best compression ratio--about 0.25 or so), I don't think

Can someone who really knows the Ogg command-line encoder, help recommend the best setting for 33.6k modem stereo music streaming? (56k doesn't count cuz many people's 56k modems don't work at a full 56k, and I want them to be able to surf CD Baby at the same time as listening. 2 minutes / 120 seconds of audio should be about 400k.) I'm at my wit's end: tried everything I

Great info. I found some descriptions of st5 (md5 fp) and ffp, where I assume that "fp" is just a Taper abbreviation for "fingerprint" - or signature as it's called in the flac header. However, I could not find these utilities or source code. What I found looked like instructions for a gui-based program. I think it would be easier to support Mac if st5 were

At SxSW I ran into the Xiph gang and someone said something in passing that the new version of Ogg Vorbis would have much-improved low-bitrate quality. Wondering - true? Details? ETA? At CD Baby all lo-fi soundclips are still in the SFERA format*. At 20k bitrates, they sound GREAT which is why I stick with it, but I'd much rather switch them ALL over to OGG if there was a way to make

My comments: ;) >hmm, I'm thinking we could >spec out an ETREE metadata >block that you could use. Yes, I think this is a good idea. I'd like to incorporate this a s much as possible as the "FLAC Standard" if it's OK with you guys, since ideally FLAC will be the etree.org format of choice, replacing Shorten. >> Filesize compressed >> >this is

I've been working towards a mp3info like tool, OggInfo, which will surplant vorbiscomment in functionality, and also incorportate mp3info like featuers. Looking at existing vorbis api calls, i find: vorbis_comment_add() /* unsupervised string insertion */ vorbis_comment_add_tag() /* formated TAG=text insertion */ vorbis_comment_query() /* scans for matching tag (up to count duplicates) and

There is a small configure glitch for rsync-2.5.5rc1 on Apple Darwin (== MacOS X) [ uname -a Darwin darwin.math.utah.edu 5.2 Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.14.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc ] the config.h file gets the line #define INET6 1 The link then fails with /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _freehostent _getipnodebyaddr

> I don't know if it's any help or not, but I'm using the NetBSD package and > it works ok. So you might look at the makefile and patches for that to see > if it does anything different. > > > On a virgin FreeBSD 4.8 system, I've tried to use the FLAC audio compression port: > > /usr/ports/audio/flac > > Using no special options on a .wav file: >

The software page's only currently maintained Ogg Vorbis player for Mac-people is the iTunes plugin that seems to be for OS X only. Is there no player for Mac OS 8 or 9? <p>--- >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 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word

is anyone using the --sector-align option of flac, or flac frontend, or shntool? that option actually complicates the flac code a lot and I would like to take it out if possible. it really belongs in a higher level encoding or burning tool. if you are using it, let me know which tool you use it with and if it's with wave, aiff, or raw files.

Dat Head wrote: > I use it all the time for wav to flac conversions for CDR burning (doesn't > everybody?!) or maybe i use it with shntool before encoding to flac, I'm pretty sure (don't have the code and couldn't read it if I had it) that shntool's "fix" module doesn't use flac's --sector-align option but has its own routines. For one thing,

Hi, A user at the www.thetradersden.org website reported a difference when fixing "sector boundary errors" in CD-quality WAV files with shntool and flac. As as result of investigating this, I think I've found a bug in the zero-ising of the buffer used to zero-pad the last file when encoding with the --sector-align option. My test consisted of the creation of four

is there yet a tool cmdline compatible to mp3info "ogginfo" ;-) If not i would write one because I use mp3info very often and some nice tools I use do too (mp3c - is on freshmeat) I took a look at the src and I think the best would be to do this based on vorbiscomment - right ? PS: i am not subscribed to the ML (yet) -- email karme@unforgettable.com IRC Karme HP

I installed a Promise SuperTrak SX6000 ATA RAID controller on 4.8-RELEASE. The following message is logged when the device is under load (equivalent of make release): pst: timeout mfa=0x00327b90 cmd=WRITE Should I be concerned? Does the I/O fail and the driver simply not report the failure to the application? -- Scott

hi, this is way off topic, but maybe someone can help... i'm looking for a script or prog that gives me info on a mp3-file, like what mpg123 shows when starting up plus some tech details like size, time, frequency etc. i've tried perl-MP3-Info, but it doesn't know about album, title, artist etc. i want to use it for fetching as much info as possible from a file into a database. any

As far as I could find, nowhere in the documentation or even source does it actually explain how to use vorbiscomment. Just a simple "vorbiscomment reads TAG=VALUE pairs on separate lines from stdin" would save people a lot of time. Of course, this is still a painful tool to use, and since I had some .ogg's lying around with broken comments (from my first ogg vorbis patch to grip),

--- "David W. Tamkin" <dattier@panix.com> wrote: > If another program invokes flac.exe to encode a WAV file that has an > extra chunk or sub-chunk that FLAC strips it out during encoding, > would > that make flac.exe report a non-zero error level back to the program > that called it? No. It's not considered an error to skip non-audio sub-chunks. Josh

--- Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote: > *I'm not sure why flac -d 1.flac 2.flac 3.flac outputs sequential > wavs > rather than one big wav; is this intentional and/or needed? I > suppose > the "one big wav" approach would require flac to look at all input > files > to write the proper wav header at the front, but that should be > do-able...?