Re: Feature request: run command on album after encoding

Ed Stokes wrote:
> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>Frode Petersen wrote:
>>>... I also use VorbisGain in album mode afterwards to set levels of all the files in a directory.
>>>It would be great if Grip could include an option to run an external program on the directory of the newly encoded files after all files are encoded, not only on a file by file basis.
>>
>>I believe it does. :)
>>Would the Disc filter command (config->rip->options) be what you're looking for?
>>The help says:
>>   Disc filter command - This operates much like the Wav filter
>>   command, except that it is run once after an entire disc has
>>   finished ripping.
> 
> Close, but "Disc Filter Command" occurs after the rip, and before the
> encode. I Frode wants something that occurs after the encode, which (I
> think) would be the "Encode Filter Command" line (Config | Encode |
> Options).

This would have been the one if I wanted to set the replaygain (Which is 
what vorbisgain does) for each song separately. The thing is that silent 
songs will be as loud as loud songs. I want to preserve the differences 
in song levels.

> 
> I've not had good luck with the Disc or Encode filters; I might be using
> bad syntax or something. I would like to run some kinda normalize
> (probably normalize -b in Disc Filter) on my lossy files.
> 
> I currently add replaygain to my FLAC files using the --replaygain tag.
>>From memory, I think I wasn't able to get it to working using Encode
> Filter. Dunno if any Vorbis encoder has that option.

I couldn't find such an option in oggenc --help. It would probably be 
per file anyway.
> 
> Questions about the filter commands have come up before ...
> http://tinyurl.com/r7fs3
> ... but if anyone has made these work, they haven't posted their
> configuration info to this list.
> 
> Es.

Do anyone else see the point in this?

Frode



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