[Gwc-general] .toc > .ogg

[Justin H H. <Ju...@Ha...>]

First, thanks Jeff for writing this and thanks everyone else for 
contributing.  I used gwc to process Mom and Dad's old vinyls and give 
them back as CDs for Christmas last year, and they have really enjoyed that.

I like the feature Charles Morgan added for .ogg and .mp3.  I would like 
to find some extra functionality or contribute it myself if its not 
available.  Automation is important to me.  I like to go through, drop 
song markers, generate .toc files and then use gwcbatch.pl to process 
them all at once.  (I forget the exact process right now as I havn't 
done it in a few months).  What I need is a way to go from .toc file + 
.wav(s) > .ogg files so they can be encoded in batch.  I have 20Gb or so 
of wave files from vinyls with matching .toc files which I edited to to 
put two sides on each CD.  Now I don't yet have a clean way to make oggs 
out of them.

If there is already a tool for this, please let me know.  If not, I'm 
sure it would be pretty simple for me to write a shell script (or may be 
my first C program as I have been wanting to start), to do this.

I mentioned that automation was important to me.  I have approached the 
Music Librarian at a local University about a project that would use 
this software.  One of the project's goals would be to convert their 
vinyl collection to .ogg file so they could be heard at listening 
stations in the library.  (there are many other goals to the project, 
but this one highlights the need for gwc or perhaps some of its code)  
I'd like to be very open about this project and share it with the gwc 
and larger linux community.  The whole thing would be open source and 
would hopefully be of use to other libraries.  I won't go into any more 
detail here, but if anyone is interested, please shoot me an email and 
I'll write you with some more details.  The project takes into 
consideration copyright restrictions, automation of the ripping 
prodedure with multiple turntables, client for searching for a 
particular piece, cataloging the collection to LOC specification, and a 
few other concerns.  The project is very slow to start now as my plate 
is full, but I hope to start as soon as possible with the help of 
another friend of mine.

thanks!,

Justin