[LAU] CD printout for manufacturer

[Len Ovens]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Peter Lutek wrote:

> yes, that all makes sense and is stuff i'm already aware of. what i'm 
> wondering about is making more human-readable reports of the CD details, 
> *besides* the file-pair required for burning. most CD manufacturers ask for 
> this, and a lot of mastering software on other platforms have facilities to 
> generate such things. to be sure, it's not a big deal to put it together by 
> hand, from the CUE or TOC, but it just seems like one more thing which could 
> (i.e. should?) be automated.  :)

I don't know of any apps that are already there, but this is what perl was 
made for, parsing one file and creating another with just the details 
required in a different format. I can't imagine any linux distro that does 
not have perl already installed.

I know, not the answer you wanted, but the best I can think of.

> as an aside, i've always thought it's a bit silly that the manufacturers want 
> something "pretty" to look at, since all the details are encoded on the 
> burned CD anyways, but i guess sometimes they double-check these things...

Accounting folk can't read TOC?


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Len Ovens
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