Re: all you MP3 people out there... a fix for lars!

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> >>>>> On 28 Oct 1998 13:16:12 -0500, wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) said:
> 
> William> http://www.mdc.net/~paulb/cajun/
> 
> I refuse to be that much of a geek.  I was certain my family and friends
> were going to leave me when I told them I was digitizing my CDs...  If I
> told them I wanted to buy another computer to put in my card with a 11gb
> hard drive in it, I'm afraid I'd be alone for the rest of my life.

  You wouldn't be alone, you'd have _US_. :)

> I must say "random play" on a whole ton of CDs is way too cool.
> 
> Lars, do you have an application for getting the serial number off of a
> CD in the drive (ascii output)?  Thats the only thing I can't do in my
> script.  I have to run something like xmcd to get it, and then feed that
> to my script (which then uses the cddb to get the
> artist/album/song-titles).

  What unix MP3 encoder do people recommend?  I haven't been able to find
one in cursory searches.  I figure I'd join the crush as I'm getting sick
of swapping cd's (my main cache is _downstairs_, and running up and down
for them in batches of 20 is too much luck exercise).

-Bill P.