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-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Jack Nguy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Gavin Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], mp3 <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Lame perl script > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:09:49 -0400 > Hello all, > > Although I was looking into this last night, I finally figured out how > to do it this morning. Its amazing what a few hours of sleep can do. > > The way I'm down sampling all the files is using find coupled with the > -exec parameter. I finally got the syntax right this morning, and this > is the command I'm using to do it is: > > find -exec lame -b 128 {} 128/{} \; -exec id3cp {} 128/{} \; > > This will down sample all of the files in a directory to 128 and throw > them into a folder called 128 within the current directory, and copies > the ID3 immediately after down sampling and move on to the next file > until all the files in the directory are done. > > You can be a little bit more specific and allow for other files to be > in the directory by entering: > > > find . *.mp3 -maxdepth 0 -exec lame -b 128 {} 128/{} \; -exec id3cp {} 128/{} > \; > > Hope this is of use to everyone. > > I am actually not on the mailing list, so any problems, feel free to > email me directly. > > Jack > > > On 4/29/05, Gavin Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 02:42 -0400, Jack Nguy wrote: > > > Hey Gavin, > > > > > > I was reading up on your post of the lame mailing list. I was > > > wondering if you still have that script that copies over the ID3v2s of > > > mp3s when downsampling. Thanks > > > > > > Jack Nguy. > > > > This is a link to the last posting on the mailing list where he > > announced his script: > > > > http://www.plug.org.au/archives/message/20050103.074214.5178b0a5.html > > > > and this is the link to the Sourceforge page he created for it: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3re-encode/ > > > > I haven't ended up using it myself, but if you do I'm sure the guy (Tim) > > would welcome an appreciative email :-) > > > > The other work-around given to me in that mailing list thread was to use > > a tag editor (like easytag) to rename the files. If the file name is > > based on "artist_track_album_year" then you can batch re-tag the files > > from name. I found this was rather clunky and everything has to be just > > right to work. > > > > Enjoy. Gavin. > > > > _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [email protected] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
