Thanks for Indpendent Programmers
I just wanted to write a wholehearted thank you to funkatron for the software that finally saved me from a loop of endless frustration, which I outlined in the previous entry. I am happy to report that LameBrain does almost everything I want in mp3 ripping and encoding. There is full access to the Lame command line options, as well as a polished GUI interface to the more important options, flexible filenames (and no stupid folder-based organizational structure imposed on the user!), freedb support... etc. The only two features that I find lacking are that only ID3v1.1 tags are supported (I hope there is an update to v2.x to support expanded information at some point), and the "Genre" field pull-down menu is populated with only freedb genres (which we all know are quite lacking). Free-form (or at least just more options) input to this field should be allowed.
So that's how this story came to a happy conclusion after all. Hooray for independent programmers, and hooray for open source! I am thankful that there are other people who believe there's a better way than the standard way, and grateful that they put in the time, talent, and effort to help make the better way possible.
Comments
You're welcome!
I'm hoping for id3v2 sometime soon as well. Since it's so much more complex than v1, I'm also hoping that someone else does the work for me (maybe in the form of a UNIX CLI app I can call). Expanding the CD Ripper's genre list to support all the id3v1 genres is on the list, too 8).
Posted by: Ed Finkler | June 15, 2003 10:03 AM
jet -
ID3V1.1 doesn't support Unicode tags, does it? Aren't you screwed on the international text front again now?
Posted by: yukino | June 15, 2003 2:59 PM
Yes, for now I am handling those the Hard Way, though I already got all the ones that I needed to get out of the way.
Posted by: jet | June 16, 2003 3:36 AM
Why do not I see me posts???
Posted by: Mopet | March 5, 2004 7:12 PM
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Posted by: vor | March 13, 2004 2:20 PM