From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KyTfo-00012k-7d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:55:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF804E03B8; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C09F9E03B8 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so1315506wff.10 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:54:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=ABW+j3YZe0xjQbYft6aejBBtXmuK8VpNi4fFbBiul8A=; b=uhD7G8W1r4qbOf8Cmt190waCT0sncldnu1LDesIzUXoK8IJxaoQdyoqtxZ17aV7Fpf uDhC7AKH5/vrsoi+Kq+HJMZLKS48i8pgFiy0X9lRK1FteFUZn7gpdspooM7XXXwEk8Z7 XwqsMh0M2VI1J1hyv07GTJ8qZvsb+8cL1O/JE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=jRWzRxxvyiI2nvfRobhrW8eMz72P5dRiVgG+d+GlJkbOenAfAW9gXFuaxzvIjeq2du 2gnDiQdR59gZi5apfLHUYpePXTpb9HGtRJmAkPxgUXAe04uqROsbudDY6u46bajn/+gR x3IqXaz15cNqgM1NzJqNontYFuZLCCOcEW61Q= Received: by 10.142.43.7 with SMTP id q7mr948970wfq.295.1226073296994; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:54:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.215.4 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 07:54:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <58965d8a0811070754o14908253x2e52724afcb63056@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:54:56 -0600 From: "Paul Hartman" Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters? In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0811070555o72d9767bj71b7a5efd4479c21@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0811041004k41ee926h9bba478c10c8117a@mail.gmail.com> <558a8f1a0811051012n71ce19fck937152f04bc8df42@mail.gmail.com> <200811052146.01085.a@gaydenko.com> <5bdc1c8b0811052055j129802d9pc58734160e243880@mail.gmail.com> <20081106095608.16a82511@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <5bdc1c8b0811061712j2b1f1b04g2a312edb0da981f1@mail.gmail.com> <20081107083053.3777aaef@digimed.co.uk> <5bdc1c8b0811070555o72d9767bj71b7a5efd4479c21@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 82ef4e32a98e6465 X-Archives-Salt: 6ec418d7-8ac2-4b09-8487-7ea1df1ec8cb X-Archives-Hash: 93e76fbd61dd4742b49058aea571f4c7 On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:12:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> Thanks. I'll give it a try and report back any results. I guess I'm >>> only moderately confident as I'm not clear how the group of MP3 files >>> keeps the original track order. Are those written into the MP3 file by >>> the converter? Where does it get the info if I've removed the track >>> numbers from the file names. Is it already in the FLAC files? >> >> It doesn't, track order is a feature of a CD, not a bunch of mp3s. If you >> want to keep the files in track order, leave the numbers there, that's >> what they're for. >> >> >> -- >> Neil Bothwick > > Then there's something going on elsewhere. Using soundconverter I > converted a few CDs removing the track numbers from the names. I sent > the CD over to a Windows box and played them using iTunes. I note that > the tracks are displayed in the original order. It's possible, I > suppose, that since the artist and title directory names are in place > that iTunes looked up the track order from the CD database, but I > assumed it was actually embedded in the file by soundconverter. > soundfile-info cannot read MP3 file so I don't know what too would > tell me that the data is in the file or not. > > I'll do the same experiment with your renaming and see what happens. > > thanks, > Mark Track number can be stored in the ID3 tag of MP3 files (as well as total number of tracks on the album, and disc number for sets).