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 1KyRp5-0005mM-Oj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:56:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F49AE03F5; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E4BE03F5 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so1255799wff.10 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:55:36 -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:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=QK187womduZAT56+z2ZyRMu+b9IekkSxLcEQjFRCseo=; b=FUs4kgPNGYIxLxQ9SCvUPToUQT/VVIjhKyZU0ye+lpXy2RS5/6sn3m5SSY5ObDXXPD XyCOq2bJfVbo+JMfHbmcqno1KvuhEfYKusK1Y77tU8eT4PtffkXOh2qCi2cbva2pFZ7v mO4Sg5g+aNzKHUFR9/EMX0hjl28cfdRspZfWs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Pm+AnkORW5UHE3cyi8oxSHmQXIaNa8YTD5RgQwe1G2sqBD+x89iN4Hjd3j2woHFBgG iOgIj3c4xSVtQtsY3ONqugKPRjw12FbCz/6POvtG7gojcnX8R9wfQ9SLwOkIFNsYGkq+ ZRbSIjp3+pM/XK98JIocQBnHRQfLLRCKq74z8= Received: by 10.142.158.17 with SMTP id g17mr897781wfe.120.1226066136399; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:55:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.215.15 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 05:55:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0811070555o72d9767bj71b7a5efd4479c21@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 05:55:36 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters? In-Reply-To: <20081107083053.3777aaef@digimed.co.uk> 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=UTF-8 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> X-Archives-Salt: d432b6fa-24cf-4200-aae2-855ba94de4f7 X-Archives-Hash: 50b82b8e3e78f4c55ae8de5c7f929d88 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