Short: Apply CDID-file on AsimCDFS-CDDA Author: Thomas Aglassinger Uploader: Thomas Aglassinger Type: disk/cdrom Version: 1.4 Requires: AsimCDFS 3.5, AmigaOS 2.x Architecture: m68k-amigaos Kurz: CDID-Datei auf AsimCDFS-CDDA anwenden TITLE cdid2asim VERSION 1.4 AUTHOR Thomas Aglassinger DESCRIPTION Transfers an already existing CDID-file to an Audio-CD (CDDA): relabels the disk and renames the tracks using the information found in the CDID-file. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AsimCDFS 3.5, SCSI-CD-Rom with support for Audio-CDs, AmigaOS 2.x. and CDID-files (which can be created and modified by several CDDA-Players, like MCDPlayer and OptyCDPlayer). It also might work with older versions of AsimCDFS, but I didn't test this. AVAILABILITY Every Aminet-mirror, file "disk/cdrom/cdid2asim.lha"; for example "ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/disk/cdrom/cdid2asim.lha". PRICE Freeware. DISTRIBUTABILITY Cdid2asim is copyrighted freeware. It may be distributed freely as long as no modifications are made to the executable and this document. A nominal fee may be asked to cover distribution costs. Cdid2asim may not be used for any commercial purposes or included with any commercial product without the written permission of the author. MOTIVATION AsimCDFS supports CDDAs is quite nifty way: You can access every track immediately as file. By default, they are named like "Track.1", "Track.2" and so on. These names can be changed (from Workbench or using AsimTunes), but this is a rather dull task. There already exists a large pool of CDID-files (for example, aminet:disk/cdrom/CDIDCollection.lha), but unfortunately, no converter is included with AsimCDFS. INSTALLATION Drag the icon anywhere you want and modify the tooltypes to fit your needs. If you want to use it from CLI, make sure that stack has been set to at least 16 KB (enter "stack 16384" in CLI). TEMPLATE CDIDPATH/K,TRACKPATH/K,NOTITLE/S,NOTRACKS/S,NOBLANKS/S, RESET/S,VERBOSE/S USAGE Cdid2asim can be invoked from CLI or Workbench. The arguments for the tooltypes are the same as for CLI. CDIDPATH directory, where the CDID-files ("ID#?") are located TRACKPATH directory, where the "Track.#?"-files are located. default "CD0:AIFF_Stereo"; usually, there should be no need to change this. NOTE: Renaming a file in one of the directories for different audio-formats also affects all corresponding files in all other directories. NOTITLE do not relabel disk with album-title NOTRACKS do not rename files with track-title NOBLANKS replace blanks in titles by underscores ("_") RESET reset title and/or tracks to defaults ("Title_Unknown" and "Track.#?") VERBOSE enable verbose output The required CDID-file needs already to exist, and, of course, the CDDA you want to apply the CDID-file on needs to be inserted in your CD-ROM-drive. Cdid2asim does some manipulation on the original title when converting it to a filename: - surrounding blanks are removed - text inside brackets is removed - some special characters ("#?|~..") are replaced by "-" - "/" is replaced by "\" If the filename is still too long, it will be cut down to the filesystem-maximum (30 characters for the album-title, 25 characters for track-titles) and the last two characters will be "..". If several tracks exist with the same name or tracks don't result in unique filenames after 25 characters, an unique filename will be computed (extensions like ".1", ".2".. are appended). Of course, the original CDID-file remains unchanged during the whole process. EXAMPLE CDID-file: ID100081EC029E71 ("[xyz]" denotes comments which are not part of the CDID-file) Half Man Half Biscuit [artist] Mc Intyre, Treadmore And Davitt [title] Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis [track#1] Prag Vec At The Melkweg [track#2] Christian Rock Concert [track#3] Lets Not [track#4] Yipps (My Baby Got The) [track#5] Hedley Verityesque [track#6] A Lilac Harry Quinn [track#7] Our Tune [track#8] Girlfriend's Finished With Him [track#9] Everything's A.O.R. [track#10] Command call (for my machine): cdid2asim CDIDPATH=appl:sound/disks VERBOSE Program output: cdid2asim - apply CDID-file on AsimCDFS-CDDA (v1.4, 24.09.97) (C) Thomas Aglassinger 1996,1997 - This is Freeware! Rename `CD0:' to `Mc Intyre, Treadmore And..' Rename `Track.1' to `Outbreak Of Vitas..' Rename `Track.2' to `Prag Vec At The Melkweg' Rename `Track.3' to `Christian Rock Concert' Rename `Track.4' to `Lets Not' Rename `Track.5' to `Yipps' Rename `Track.6' to `Hedley Verityesque' Rename `Track.7' to `A Lilac Harry Quinn' Rename `Track.8' to `Our Tune' Rename `Track.9' to `Girlfriend's Finished..' Rename `Track.10' to `Everything's A.O.R.' 10 out of 10 track-titles modified Comments: For the title, "Mc Intyre, Treadmore And Davitt", the text is reduced to fit 30 characters and ends with ".." For track#1, "Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis", the text is reduced to fit 25 characters and ends with "..". This still allows a ".info" to be appended to the filename. For track#5, "Yipps (My Baby Got The)", the text inside brackets is removed and results in "Yipps". PROBLEMS - If CLI-Version crashes, make sure that a stack of at least 16 KB is used (enter "stack 16384" in CLI) - When updating the album-title (with NOTITLE not specified), CDDAs currently playing are interrupted. This is a feature of AsimCDFS. - Cdid2asim asumes that Examine() and ExNext() return the track-sequence in correct order. This is the case for version 3.x of AsimCDFS, but if this changes in future, the filenames won't fit the corresponding tracks anymore. - As a feature of AsimCDFS, the usage of cdid2asim also affects the database used by AsimTunes, but the artist-field remains untouched. If, for some reason, the filenames get totally trashed, you can repair them using the editor of AsimTunes. I needed this once during development, when two files got identical names (of course, this bug has already been fixed). DISCLAIMER No responsibilities are taken for damaged CDs, CDROM drives, Amigas or any other components or data involved while using cdid2asim. If you find any bugs, let me know. CREDITS Thanks to Boris Jakubaschk for MCDPlayer; most of the SCSI-stuff is based on his sources. HISTORY Version 1.4, 25-Sep-1997 - characters with an ASCII-code greater than 128 are now treated like alphanumeric characters; for instance J.Karjalainen's "Rockin' Kyöstin rokkibändi" now results in "Rockin' Kyöstin.." instead of "Rockin' Kyöstin rokkibä.." - now CD-title only is updated if necessary Version 1.3, 21-May-1997 - no more SCSI device and unit necessary, as this information is now obtained from the device name (usually CD0:) - removed CLI options DEVICE and UNIT (as a result of the above) - check, if CD drive is handled by AsimCDFS, is now performed in a better way (scans OS-data structures instead just checks for existence of l:AsimCDFS) - fixed some inconsistencies in this README. Version 1.2, 16-May-1997 - renamed from "DiskID2Asim" to "cdid2asim" - increased stack to 16 KB (WB-Version could crash with smaller stack) - improved track name conversion: - non-alphanumeric characters (except "." and "!") at end of track names are removed - blanks before the ".." at the end of long filenames are removed - double blanks are converted to a single one - renamed option DISKIDPATH to CDIDPATH Version 1.1, 3-Sep-1996 - uses more sophisticated algorithm to create unique filenames - no more insists on tracks named "Track.#?" and therefor can be applied multiple times (if the DiskID-file has been modified) - removes only whole words from long names - checks if "l:AsimCDFS" is available - added RESET option Version 1.0, 2-Sep-1996 - initial release