I haven't posted anything in a while because I've been a bit self-concious about my lack of a scanner. Now I'm running a linux box, and tonight's exercise was to rip, encode, tag and zip a compact disc from the collection entirely via the command line. I've got the scanner/printer thing hooked up to the linux machine and managed to use Xsane to get the cover artwork. For the nerds, this is a quick procedure that I wrote out (comments after the hash in each line):
mkdir [album name]
cd [album name]
cdparanoia -B #rip CD tracks into current directory as wav
for t in track{01..xx}*.wav; do lame -b 160 $t; done #convert tracks from 01 to xx at 160 kbps
mid3v2 -a [artist] -A [album] -t "[track name]" -T [x/x -track number] -y [year] track05.cdda.mp3 #create id3 tags - iterate
cd ..
zip -r [album name].zip [album name - directory] #make zip file
Bungalow were a band that I picked up because they had a PO Box in Glen Waverley listed on the back of the disc. They were a bunch of medicine students that played Rock - General. They also had a Triple J Unearthed page featuring one of the songs on this disc, a few years after the fact. If you're looking for a period-era website (hosted by the creatively named au.com) see here.
1. Fall Into Me
2. Dynamo
3. Cafe Poet
4. City
5. I Love Her
Bungalow (2000) - Bungalow
