Hi. just a quick question. Normally, when encoding using lame, i'll type in this command. . .

notlame -b 256 -q 0 <inputfile> <outputfile>

is there a way so that when i type in notlame, those parameters are automatically run as well? Would it be someting with the .bashrc file?

You can a) make a shell-script or b) an alias
that does that. To the best of my knowledge
lame doesn't honour any rc-files or environment
variables...

But an
alias lame='notlame -b 256 -q 0 '
put into .bashrc/.bash_profile shouldn't be to
hard ;)


Cheers,
Tink

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Can you (or someone else elaborate)

I'm trying to speed up the process from putting a cd in the drive to getting a finished mp3. I take all these steps and It takes a lot of time.

1) Rip CD using Grip (cdparanoia used). I would rip from the command line but I don't understand the arguments for it even after reading the --help.

2)for each track: notlame -b 256 -q 0 <input file> <output file> I have to do it for each track because I haven't figured out how to do multiple ones with one command. Putting them all after each other just with spaces doesn't work

3)using mp3gain: mp3gain -r -k <filename> This one isn't so bad because I can do them all at once.

4)rm ./<artist>*.wav
Don't want all those ripped wav files taking up room.

5)Open each one up in winamp and fix the tags. This method doesn't insert them anywhere along the line and I don't know of an ID3 editor for linux