Re: Grip and Lame script

Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> jonathan jefferies wrote:
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>> I'm having a bit of a problem getting grip and lame to
>> play together. My system is Suse10. The grip is 3.2.0
>> the lame is LAME version 3.96.1 (http://lame.sourceforge.net/)
>>
>> First I've tried several of the other encoder solutions provided
>> with grip before settling on lame. Primarily I chose it
>> because it can do the encoding and has documented facilities
>> to insert the id3 as I want.
>>
>> Ripping is not a problem but the setup of the grip scripts
>> to run lame has resulted in the final encoding to mp3 having
>> "wav" inserted into the filename, i.e. "tin_angel.wav.mp3"
>> and I would like to dispense with the "wav" artifact.
>>
>> the current scripts that I've been working with are found as
>> Config->encode->encoder
>> encoder executable: /usr/bin/lame
>> encoder command-line:-h  --tt %n --ta %a --tl %d --ty %y --add-id3v2 %w
>> encode file extension: mp3
>> encode file format: /usr/local/music/music/grip/%A/%d/%n.mp3
>>
>> Note that I have also tried the
>> encoder command-line:-h  --tt %n --ta %a --tl %d --ty %y --add-id3v2 %w %n
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> Is the last %n a typo?  I think you really want %m, which will use the
> filename/file format from "encode file format."  Using %n will not
> have any .mp3 extension, so lame will add it I believe.
>   
I should have indicated that use of %n resulted in no encoding. The %m 
is what was needed. BTW, just
discovered that changes made to the config get written out to 
~/.grip-lame  (in the case of lame scripts)
when grip is exited.

thanks
J.
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>> QUESTION:
>> When do changes made to the config page take effect?? immediately or
>> do you need to exit grip and then restart it?
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> I don't know off the top of my head if any changes require a restart
> or grip, but from experience most of them don't.
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