[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird audio question

[terry]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Wayne Dahl <w.dahl4 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Ralph wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >   It sounds like amarok and noatun need a plugin that handles flac and
> > don't have one.  VLC has one compiled in.  I believe amarok, uses the
> > xine libraries to play flac, but I don't know about noatun.  Some
> > versions of the xine libraries had problems with flac files, but I think
> > that was fixed before your version.
> >
>
> Apparently not.  I have other .flac files that work just fine, Hotel
> California.flac, for example.  I'm listening to it right now.  Could it
> be the bitrate?  The bitrate on Roundabout is showing to be 1,213, the
> bitrate on Hotel California is showing to be 774, quite a difference.
> Is it maybe just that Amarok/Xine can't handle the higher bitrate?
>
> >   To convert a flac file to a wave file, I would use a tool cleverly
> > called flac.  Just type:
> >   flac -d "Yes - Fragile - 01 - Roundabout.flac"
> >  The quotes are needed because you carelessly allowed spaces in your
> > file names.
> >
>
> Yeah, that's the way they came to me.  I just haven't shortened the


If  you'd like to remove spaces from a whole directory of .mp3's, try this:

 for i in *.mp3; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done


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