9 Apr
2011
9 Apr
'11
5:51 p.m.
How would one go about listing all flac files that have a bit depth of
greater than 16?
Since this info is stored in an id3 tag I can't seem to figure out how to go
about this.
Thanks for any input.
-Aaron
9 Apr
9 Apr
5:55 p.m.
Hi1
You might use file and some shell magic, i.e. grep or sed to search for the
bit depth info. Maybe you can even use id3v2 and then you might need something
like:
if [ $BIT_DEPTH -gt 16 ]; then
echo $FILENAME;
fi
Of course youhave to set up BIT_DEPTH using either file or id3v2, how that
is done exactly, no idea, since i never did it. Are yo familiar with basic
shell script programming?
I hope, that helped a bit. - If not, just tell me and I'll see, if I can
write a very basic script to do the work.
Warmly yours
Julien
--------
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6:13 p.m.
Thanks, Julien.
I'd consider myself relatively handy behind the command line but my id3 tag
foo is pretty weak.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
On Apr 9, 2011 8:55 AM, "Julien Claassen" <julien(a)c-lab.de> wrote:
Hi1
You might use file and some shell magic, i.e. grep or sed to search for
the
bit depth info. Maybe you can even use id3v2 and then
you might need
something
like:
if [ $BIT_DEPTH -gt 16 ]; then
echo $FILENAME;
fi
Of course youhave to set up BIT_DEPTH using either file or id3v2, how that
is done exactly, no idea, since i never did it. Are yo
familiar with basic
shell script programming?
I hope, that helped a bit. - If not, just tell me and I'll see, if I can
write a very basic script to do the work.
Warmly yours
Julien
--------
Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles)
======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ========
http://ltsb.sourceforge.net
the Linux TextBased Studio guide
======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: =======
http://www.juliencoder.de
6:26 p.m.
Hello Aaron!
If you do something like:
file test.flac
it tells you something like this:
test.flac: FLAC audio bitstream data, 16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz, 5090250
samples
So you might search for two-digit-int SPACE bit and use that number to only
display these files. If your flacs don't have spaces in their names, you may
easily use awk with print $9
If you have spaces, you might use awk's split function and use ':' as your
seperator and then print my_array[2] and pipe that into another awk and then
use print $8 .
I hope, that is some help to you.
As for id3 tags, just RTFM id3v2 and experiement. :-)
Warmly yours
Julien
--------
Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles)
======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ========
http://ltsb.sourceforge.net
the Linux TextBased Studio guide
======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: =======
http://www.juliencoder.de
9:36 p.m.
* Julien Claassen [2011-04-09 18:26]:
file test.flac
it tells you something like this:
test.flac: FLAC audio bitstream data, 16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz, 5090250
A quick-and-dirty approach using Julien's idea:
find . -name \*.flac -exec file {} + | grep -v '16 bit'
That is, run "file" on all .flac files, and filter out those those that
are 16 bit.
Alex
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