Posted by dadiOH on 10/10/05 11:45

Punju wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have a problem I've been struggling with for some time. I'm looking
> to
>
> write a small script/application capable of ripping a CD via
> cdparanoia and
> encoding the tracks to mp3 via LAME (in Linux -it is currently a PERL
> script). However, I'm trying to write it in such a way as to encode
> the
> track AS it is being ripped, i.e. not waiting until the entire track
> is
>
> ripped, so as to get the processing done in the least amount of time.

It really isn't going to save any time, CPU can only do one thing at a
time.
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> Has anyone done this, or perhaps can point me in the right direction?
> Current efforts have revolved around using cdparanoia to rip part of
> the
> track, encoding, ripping the next part, encoding that, etc. Attempts
> to
> combine the resultant .mp3 files into a single file in an intelligent
> manner
> have come up empty. Was hoping others had better suggestions than
> what I
> came up with.

I know nothing of the programs you are using but if they let you control
things you need only set up a buffer for CD>HD, feed from that to an
encode buffer and from that one to the final buffer.

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dadiOH
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