Re: Custom CD mixes

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hey Benny -- I figgered out how to save the playlists. Luckily the the
playlist is in ASCII
format. I can strip this,  and generate an  @array array in perl , and
use that array
to generate the *.wav file.

Thanks

On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 2:04 PM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> I have a package that creates the .wav file.
> I just wanna order them the way I want, and then turn that list into a .wav file
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 1:43 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Todd Gruhn wrote in
> >  <CA+9Akf8JhObfPFtB-RAB=rCET_Wcs689LGuf0C0HqHp0PC-7bw%mail.gmail.com@localhost>:
> >  |On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 6:42 AM Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >  |>> Am 09.07.2021 um 21:45 schrieb Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>:
> >  |>>
> >  |>> If I wanna pull the music off CDs and make a custom album, is there \
> >  |>> a package
> >  |>> that would allow me to choose the songs, and play order?
> >  |>
> >  |> Rhythmbox is a good software for organizing your music collection \
> >  |> and creating playlists.
> >  |>
> >  |> If you want to burn an audio CD, the way I used to do it is:
> >  |>
> >  |> 1. Convert to wav (not sure that rhythmbox can do it)
> >  |> 2. Write a cue file and burn the CD with cdrdao. The cue file format \
> >  |> is easy enough to do by hand, and it allows you to control gaps and such.
> >  |>
> >  |> There are CD writing GUIs in pkgsrc if you prefer that.
> >
> >  |Thanks Benny. I was hoping I would not have to write my own
> >
> > Hm, hmmm, well.  I also have written some small tools.
> >
> > An info / audio extractor which works on all BSDs (DragonFly,
> > Free, Net and Open tested) as well as Linux.  It was not tested
> > with mixed-mode CDs, but other than that it never left me in the
> > lurch with the CDs i threw at it (with the drive i have).  The
> > extracted info can easily be grasped by shell scripts.
> > s-cdda(1)[1] ball is ~18KB.
> >
> > Much earlier (~Y2K) i have written a script that rips CDs (now
> > solely through s-cdda(1)), converts the extracted audio to several
> > different formats (Opus support untested, but Ogg Vorbis (via
> > oggenc(1), flac, mp4 (via faac(1), and mp3 (via lame) is, ogg and
> > mp4 i use myself), by default after normalizing the volume across
> > the tracks if applicable (via sox(1)), and stores them in per-CD
> > directories under an umbrella path.  Together with a music.db
> > UTF-8 text file which describes the data (most of that also stored
> > in the songs itself, but that needs extractor tools say).  This
> > (quite easily parsable= plain text format can deal with
> > ("represent") classical music ("artist layout") much better than
> > any other tool i know.  It is easy to create symlink farms or
> > whatever else is desired from the music.db as well as the songs,
> > no shell quoting issues, for example.
> >
> > I have added MusicBrainz support last year, after the CDDB was
> > turned off (but for the copy that GNU offers), so normally the
> > fields are (somewhat) filled in automatically.
> > Anyhow, it is a simple terminal program that asks for the tracks
> > that should be ripped, and "guides" through the process.
> > [2] is ~33KB.  Caveats: it should be used with the perl(1) -C
> > command line flag, a ~twenty years old habit of mine that was just
> > recently changed after i have the according discussion in an
> > OpenSSL ticket; i adjusted the code (of quite some scripts) to use
> > setlocale(3) instead, but no release with that yet; [3] has it
> > (server supports on-the-fly compression).
> >
> > Burning not from here.
> >
> >   [1] https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/s-cdda-0.8.5.tar.gz
> >   [2] https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/s-cdda-to-db-0.7.0.tar.gz
> >   [3] https://git.sdaoden.eu/browse?p=s-toolbox.git;a=blob_plain;f=s-cdda-to-db.pl
> >
> > --steffen
> > |
> > |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> > |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> > |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> > |(By Robert Gernhardt)