Re: Output file

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Hi Dan,

Dan Smith wrote:
> Hello folks. Normally I'm on the other end of questions but this
> time I'd like to ask one. Sorry about asking a question soon as I
> join a group but I'm rather frustrated at the moment.

Don't worry.  Have a home brew.  (Sorry, that's just an amusing line
from a beer brewing book I have that makes a good calming mantra. :)

> So my problem is how do I get Grip to format the names like that? I
> have tried just inserting a - into the file name and that crashes
> Grip and it returns to it's default configuration. Something that is
> quite agravating.

Yes, that would be.  I've just done this and not had any crash.  The
encode file format I used was /tmp/mp3/%A/%d/%a-%n.%x.

Is there any output you get if you run grip from a terminal?  When
does grip crash, during ripping or encoding?  Perhaps you could post
your encoder command line.

I am running grip 3.3.1, I suppose it's possible that this is a bug
which has been fixed, but it's probably worth checking some other
settings before updating to find out.

> My second question is about variable bit encoding.  I like to use
> variable encoding, 128 is noticably lower quality, the lowest I like
> to use is 256, with variable encoding I get the smaller file sizes
> with high quality sound usually.  I'd love to see as a new feature a
> check box for variable bit encoding and a box to set the parms for
> it.  I can do this in the lame command parms but I'm not sure if
> Grip will override this with a new -b option or if Lame will just
> plain get confused. Same with Bladenc, either one I'm comfortable
> using.

I'm not quite sure I'm following you on this.  What would you set as
the encoder command line to do what you want and what is it that
you're concerned might confuse lame or be overwritten.

I'm using VBR on my mp3's these days and the encoder command line I
have is -V 1 --vbr-new %w %m.  I am using lame 3.96.1, from the livna
repo, on FC4.

> As for ogg files, the default for Grip

This isn't actually Grip's default.  It's the default on Fedora.  They
don't ship any mp3 tools, so grip comes patched to create ogg's.

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