MP3do
The solution to your time (and GUI) problems

Here you will find:

  1. Frequently Asked Question
  2. Examples
  3. User's manual (English version)
  4. User's manual (Italian version)

Questions...

  1. What is MP3do?
  2. What I need to run MP3do?
  3. Will be a GUI someday?
  4. How can I help developing this program?

... And Answers

  1. What is MP3do?

    MP3do is a little (but powerful) bash script that speed-up decoding process from MP3 (or OGG) to WAV or CDR. Finally it can write decoded songs to a CD with cdrecord or cdrdao.

  2. What I need to run MP3do?

    All that you need is a GNU/Linux or similar system, and the following utilities:

    In order to use this script you should install (and well configure) at least first three utilities descripted before.
    There is a configure.sh script born to help configuring MP3do, depending on utilities installed on your sysyem, but it's in full developement state.


  3. Will be a GUI someday?

    This script is born for "console-dependant" users that won't use anymore GUI...
    I will never make a GUI, but if you wants to do it... You are welcome! GPL is a GREAT thing!

  4. How can I help developing this program?

    You can help me simply writing to my e-mail address. You can read the TODO list here.

Examples

Example 1: 

      MP3do -s *.mp3 -T
With this command line you will calculate the sum of all times of all songs in actual dir with mp3 extension



Example 2: 

      MP3do -f mysongs.txt -T -a
The same as example 1, but songs will be taken from mysongs.txt file. Then it will be checked wheter all songs fits in a CD (if present in the CD-Recorder).
mysongs.txt must be a text-only file with relative or absolute path of mp3 files, one for each row.



Example 3: 

      MP3do -s *.mp3 -t wav
With this command line you will convert all files in actual dir with mp3 extension in wav format.
If there are some poorly encoded file, will be auto-convertet to a 44100Hz stereo wav file.



Example 4: 

      MP3do -s *.mp3 *.ogg -a -w
With this command line you will:
  1. check wheter all mp3 and ogg files in actual dir fit on CD present in CD-Recorder;
  2. convert all files in actual dir with mp3 and ogg extension in wav format;
  3. burn CD with default writer program.


Example 5: 

      MP3do -s *.mp3 *.ogg -a -w --purge
Same as above, but all converted files will be removed after successful burning process.

Example 6: 

      MP3do -s *.mp3 *.ogg -a -w cdrdao
Same as example 4. In addition all converted files will be burned with cdrdao using a tocfile named something like cd_N.toc (where N is a number).

Example 7: 

      MP3do -s *.mp3 *.ogg -a -w cdrdao --toc MyTocFile.toc --purge
Same as above, but tocfile will be named MyTocFile.toc. In addition all converted files will be removed after a successful burning process.

Work in progress...
Stefano Falsetto
Last modified: Mon Dec 17 12:14:08 CET 2001