December 2001 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Burning MP3s onto CD

by Frank Sweetser

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:17:16AM -0500, Keller, Tim wrote: > Andy, > > The Way I lay my CD's out is > root > Artist > Album > mp3's > > I personally use mkisofs and the loopback mount them as a sanity check. As > for the format, I use ISO9660/Joliet with "allow stuff that breaks ISO" aka > > mkisofs -U -J -o some.iso a_subdirectory_layed_out_like_above/ > > It'll then bitch about this not conforming but everything works fine. Add -r -T and it should stop complaining. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 15 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | The one computer-language course I took was Cobol, and basically, I just slept the whole quarter. Then, the night before the final, I read the IBM Cobol manual, and I got the top score in the final. - Larry Wall, in an interview with O'Reilly

Dec. 5, 2001

RE: [Wlug] Burning MP3s onto CD

by Keller, Tim

Andy, The Way I lay my CD's out is root Artist Album mp3's I personally use mkisofs and the loopback mount them as a sanity check. As for the format, I use ISO9660/Joliet with "allow stuff that breaks ISO" aka mkisofs -U -J -o some.iso a_subdirectory_layed_out_like_above/ It'll then bitch about this not conforming but everything works fine. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@mediaone.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:07 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Burning MP3s onto CD HI gang, OK, so let's say that I get one of those players that plays audio CDs or CDs with a bunch of MP3 files on them. (I don't mean converting the MP3s to audio first). My question is this: what format is used for the MP3 CD? Is it just a standard ISO9660 CD with the MP3 files and playlists(?) layed out with a particular directory scheme? Or is it something else? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Dec. 5, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Burning MP3s onto CD

by Chuck Homic

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:07:25AM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > My question is this: what format is used for the MP3 CD? Is it just a > standard ISO9660 CD with the MP3 files and playlists(?) layed out with a > particular directory scheme? Or is it something else? Ya, dude. The manual that comes with it should specify how to lay out the files and directories to get what you want. I have purchased a cheaper model, which has weird rules about what order the directories play, but I've successfully burned ISO disks in Linux and played them on the thing. I couldn't imagine anything easier. Of course, now that I'm on the forum, here, I've got another question for the folks. Is there any to create the equivalent to hard links on an ISO disk? With my particular player, this would seem to be the only way to create "playlists." (That would be just to make directories with "hard links" that point to songs that are already elsewhere on the disk.) Thanks. -Chuck

Dec. 5, 2001

Burning MP3s onto CD

by Andy Stewart

HI gang, OK, so let's say that I get one of those players that plays audio CDs or CDs with a bunch of MP3 files on them. (I don't mean converting the MP3s to audio first). My question is this: what format is used for the MP3 CD? Is it just a standard ISO9660 CD with the MP3 files and playlists(?) layed out with a particular directory scheme? Or is it something else? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Dec. 5, 2001

Re: [Wlug] perl wus

by ccb＠acm.org

man a2p relax. ccb

Dec. 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] perl wus

by Theo Van Dinter

How about this one: cmd | perl -lne 'BEGIN{open(O,">>out")||die "open:$!"} print O $1 if (/^\d* (\S*)/)' The longest part of that is the handling of the output file. :) Just curious, what is this for? -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "I don't know if all the people in New England are repressed, but I knew a girl from New Hampshire, now she wasn't repressed, she could do long division with her thighs." - Joe Bob Briggs

Dec. 4, 2001

RE: [Wlug] perl wus

by Skip Gaede

If you want to, STDIN and STDOUT can be used (and are assumed). while (<>) { # keep lines that start with digits print $1 if m/^[0-9]+ ([^ ]+)$/; } --Skip -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Mike Peckar Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:17 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] perl wus o.k., I admit it, I suck dead donkey dicks in hell at this. I know I can do gooder - maybe you can help. The perl below works, I just think its real ugly and I can't stand the thought that the same thing using awk is simply: cmd | awk '{ if ($1 ~ /^[0-9]*$/) {print $2}}' >> $outlist One place I'm lost is with embedding carriage returns, which awk does so nicely. I played with arrays, stripping extra \n's after the loop, then after adding the stupid if statement below to prevent the extra blank line, I just gave up thinking I need a really good flogging. It was at this point I started to regret every brain cell I lost between 1976 and 1986, so I decided to ask you so I could get on with my life... open( IN, "$cmd |"); while (<IN>) { ($f1,$f2) = split(' ', $_); if ( $f1 =~ /^[0-9]*$/ ) { if ( $list ) { $list = "$list\n$f2" } else { $list = $f2 } } } close IN; open ( OUT, ">$oulist"); print OUT "$list"; close OUT; thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Dec. 4, 2001

perl wus

by Mike Peckar

o.k., I admit it, I suck dead donkey dicks in hell at this. I know I can do gooder - maybe you can help. The perl below works, I just think its real ugly and I can't stand the thought that the same thing using awk is simply: cmd | awk '{ if ($1 ~ /^[0-9]*$/) {print $2}}' >> $outlist One place I'm lost is with embedding carriage returns, which awk does so nicely. I played with arrays, stripping extra \n's after the loop, then after adding the stupid if statement below to prevent the extra blank line, I just gave up thinking I need a really good flogging. It was at this point I started to regret every brain cell I lost between 1976 and 1986, so I decided to ask you so I could get on with my life... open( IN, "$cmd |"); while (<IN>) { ($f1,$f2) = split(' ', $_); if ( $f1 =~ /^[0-9]*$/ ) { if ( $list ) { $list = "$list\n$f2" } else { $list = $f2 } } } close IN; open ( OUT, ">$oulist"); print OUT "$list"; close OUT; thanks, Mike

Dec. 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] VNC performance

by Andy Stewart

HI Brad et al, Definitely get that wallpaper (background) to be some plain, boring, solid color, or it will adversely effect VNC performance unless you have really good network bandwidth. Background gradients really kill the performance in many cases. Once that's done, make sure the server and viewer are speaking the same number of colors. I believe the server defaults to 8 bit color. If the server is run with 24 bit color (for example) and the viewer is only 8 bit color, VNC has to transpose and that can reduce performance. Also, try using a Java enabled browser as a VNC client. Sometimes, it works better than the native vncviewer, but only for 8 bit color situations. This is heavily dependent on the Java implementation. Finally, check the network and make sure you aren't bandwidth limited. I'vve seen VNC takes 500 kb/sec on my cable modem during "compilcated" screen redraws, but then settle back down during more idle periods. If you are bandwidth limited, you might try www.tightvnc.com. I hope this helps. Let us know your results. Andy On Monday 03 December 2001 02:51 pm, dibb_jim(a)emc.com wrote: > Right click on windows desktop, choose settings->background, then under > wallpaper select (None). That disables windows wallpaper. > > Maybe there's something else. Hope it helps. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Noyes [mailto:maitre@ccs.neu.edu] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:36 PM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] VNC performance > > > Hi All, > I remember some time ago talking with Andy, and others about VNC > performance at a > wlug meeting. I remember that setting the depth 8 will help performance, > as well > as disabling the wallpaper. I am running the server on windows, and the > client > on a linux machine. VNC's site has info for disabling wallpaper, but it > seems to > involve editing a registry file. When i try to do so, i get an access > denied message, because that file is read only. Can someone help me out > here? I really > know very little about windows. On the client side, the option '-depth > 8' doesn't seem to do very much i get '16 bits per pixel'. > > If anyone knows of any other methods for speeding up VNC, please post. > > Thanks, > --Brad > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Dec. 3, 2001

RE: [Wlug] VNC performance

by Jeremy

FYI: Regedt32 is a slightly uglier RegEdit but includes the ability to change the permissions of certain keys (i.e. driver enum keys etc). Even when logged in administrator (which is probably why you cant change the registry - are you logged in as administrator or similar rights?) certain keys do not have write/delete access. Using regedt32 allows you to change the permission (assume admin rights) of such keys and therefore modify them. I only use regedt32 as a last resort when modify the Windows Registry, otherwise use regedit. --- "Evans, Robert" <Robert.Evans(a)stratus.com> wrote: > Try using a registry editor on Windows: > (Typically in these places on Windows 2000) > C:WINNT egedit.exe > C:WINNTsystem32 egedt32.exe > > Robert N. Evans > Software Engineer > S T R A T U S T E C H N O L O G I E S > 111 Powdermill Road, Maynard, MA 01754-3409 U.S.A. > * Tel. 978-461-7680 / * Fax. 978-461-3610 > robert.evans(a)stratus.com > Amateur Radio Call: N1BE > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Noyes [mailto:maitre@ccs.neu.edu] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:36 PM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] VNC performance > > > Hi All, > I remember some time ago talking with Andy, and others about VNC performance > at a > wlug meeting. I remember that setting the depth 8 will help performance, as > well > as disabling the wallpaper. I am running the server on windows, and the > client > on a linux machine. VNC's site has info for disabling wallpaper, but it > seems to > involve editing a registry file. When i try to do so, i get an access denied > message, because that file is read only. Can someone help me out here? I > really > know very little about windows. On the client side, the option '-depth 8' > doesn't seem to do very much i get '16 bits per pixel'. > > If anyone knows of any other methods for speeding up VNC, please post. > > Thanks, > --Brad > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com

Dec. 3, 2001