[abcde] Re: Ripping with -V

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 02:10:52PM -0400, Mostly Harmless wrote:
> Thought I'd see who's lurking on this list.

Not very many people yet - I made it mostly as a way of making abcde
development more public (web archived).

> I'm having trouble with ripping compilations CDs with -V. It seems as
> if -V was working (the id3 tags are correct and split up track and
> artist) but the filenames are not. Maybe this is desired but I'm not
> sure. I have: OUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM} -
> ${TRACKFILE}.mp3'
> 
> But even though it's correctly figuring out the artist of each track,
> abcde is leaving the artists as part of ${TRACKFILE}. So I end up with
> files like 01 - This Cool Song - One hit Wonder.mp3. Yes, I've set -V
> forward-dash.
> 
> Is this the desired way for it to work? I will submit a patch if you
> like but I figured I'd wait for the new version. I think it means
> breaking things out into a few more variables -- namely ALBUMARTISTFILE
> and TRACKARTISTFILE.

I agree that it's not optimal - the original patch I recieved to
implement -v never addressed this issue.

If you'd like to fully implement this feature, I'll be happy to release
another version with the patch.

Hopefully with 1.2/2.0 I'll be able to wedge in a mechanism for looking at
the CDDB data, *then* let you choose which various artists mechanism to
use.

The "exit 0" I have in my 1.2/2.0 development copy for testing purposes
is currently at line 531 of 786, and once it gets down to the bottom I can
start testing all the changes I've made. :)
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"A. Can you define 'protect'?" "Q. ...prevent consumers from getting at..."
-- MPAA vs. 2600 depositions

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