[LAU] CD printout for manufacturer

[Peter Lutek]

On 2015-01-08 08:54, Len Ovens wrote:
> 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.

yeah, that's what i've been thinking... or even sed, perhaps.

>
>> 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?

;)

cheers!
.pltk.

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Peter Lutek
improvising musician in Toronto, Canada
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