{"id":1847,"date":"2004-11-30T21:58:49","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T02:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2008-03-05T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T01:41:51","slug":"livemp3-convert-those-big-old-audio-torrents-to-something-listenable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/30\/livemp3-convert-those-big-old-audio-torrents-to-something-listenable\/","title":{"rendered":"livemp3 &#8211; convert those big old audio torrents to something listenable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll need Perl, and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.cpan.org\/author\/WADG\/Config-IniFiles-2.38\/IniFiles.pm\">Config::IniFiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Program: <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/livemp3\">livemp3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A sample ini file so you can see how to set this up: <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/welch_rawlings_shepherds_bush.ini\">welch_rawlings_shepherds_bush.ini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, this just generates output that you&#8217;ll need to feed to <em>sh<\/em>, but it handles renaming, converting and tagging MP3s to my satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: it doesn&#8217;t handle FLAC tags, even though they&#8217;d be a good source of metadata. I may look into implementing that some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll need Perl, and Config::IniFiles. Program: livemp3. A sample ini file so you can see how to set this up: welch_rawlings_shepherds_bush.ini. At the moment, this just generates output that you&#8217;ll need to feed to sh, but it handles renaming, converting and tagging MP3s to my satisfaction. Update: it doesn&#8217;t handle FLAC tags, even though they&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[46,494,45,187],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-flac","tag-live","tag-mp3","tag-perl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-tN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}