[abcde] Re: Jot-patch for abcde-2.0.3

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:59:03PM -0500, Espen Oyslebo wrote:
> HI!
> 
> As I mentioned earlier, FreeBSD uses jot instead of seq for
> creating sequentail (and random for that matter) data. Here's
> the diff file for abcde-2.0.3 to allow it to be run using jot
> instead of seq.

I don't know whether you just forgot to attach it or whether
Listar ate it (usually listar says when it munches attachments),
but it's not there. :/

Anyway, that's on my list for 2.1.x.

> Before I start rebuilding my mp3 archieve seriously, I'd like
> to make sure that this time it's really `perfect'. By this I
> mean well-organized and `cd-quality' (at least for my ears on
> any hifi I might afford within the next 10-15 years).
> As for quality, I've looked at www.r3mix.com and come to the
> conclusion that their recomendation pretty much suits my needs,
> with bitrates averaging around 192 kbit/s. For most music, I
> can't tell the difference between a 128 kbit mp3 (using lame
> 3.91 with the -d0 option) and the original wav.

lame's r3mix algorithms are about as good as it gets for mp3's,
however it's still lossy. FLAC is on my 2.1.x list - you might
want to take a look at that if you have the disk space.

> As for organization, this one's pretty important, and I'd
> like to suggest it as a futere feature to abcde... It
> shouldn't take much modification to the main script to
> add a function which inserts the data pulled from freedb
> into a mysql database to make searching your mp3 collection
> easier.

More customizable hooks will be added to 2.1.x too.

> Then, another sweet feature would be if you every now and
> then could run an update script which re-checked the freedb
> database and updated your mp3 file names and id3 tags to
> reflect possible changes.

Such a tool would naturally work independantly of abcde.
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
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