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1015 posts		 Apr-23-12, 10:18 AM (EDT)
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"Audio File Names"
 
   I was just going through and updating my collection of EPU Audio files, and realized that there is no particular pattern as to how you named them, especially the prefixes (e.g., Hogtown Rhapsody is prefixed with 02-10, corresponding with parts 1-9, and some others are prefixed with X-YY, where YY is the part number but X could be anything, like 6-XX for Another Christmas Rose). Is there supposed to be a pattern to this, or did you just end up with some random names and never bothered to rename them after the fact (which is fine)?

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1015 posts		 Apr-23-12, 10:55 AM (EDT)
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1. "And another question"
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   I'm asking this in a reply since it's only related in that it's about the Audio files. I currently have audio files for Star-Crossed (including the correspondence) and Manhunt, which are not located in the AUDIO tree but directly off those stories' pages. Are there any other audio versions out there that I'm missing do to similar placement?

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2. "RE: Audio File Names"
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   The inconsistencies mainly reflect the changes in the way iTunes auto-organizes its library files over the years. For instance, when the Hogtown Rhapsody files were first made, they were considered tracks 2 through 10 of the Symphony No. 1 "album", because the only other S1 story that had been recorded was Interlude at Bancroft Tower, which comes before it and was thus track 1.

Later versions of iTunes started prepending disc number before track number in filenames. That's where the ones like the 6 at the beginnings of the Another Christmas Rose filenames come from. ACR is the sixth story in Symphony No. 2, and so I've got it indexed as "disc 6" of the S2 "album". These bits of information also appear in the ID3 information for the tracks, and help keep them all in order (one hopes) when added to another library.

The reason the older audio files haven't been re-upped with the new filenames and ID3 data (because I have all the extant EPU files in my own iTunes library, and they've thus been kept automagically up to date as the way the program handles these things has evolved) is mainly that I a) didn't think anyone would be really interested in all that and b) couldn't be arsed to sit through the uploads again. They take a while when you have an asynchronous pipe with a smaller up than down rate.

The issue with Manhunt and Star-Crossed not being in the AUDIO tree, on the other hand, is just sloppiness on my part. I'll make some symlinks so they at least appear to be in the main AUDIO tree. (The filenames for those don't follow the conventions described above because, for reasons that now elude me, I changed them after uploading the files rather than leaving them in the iTunes filename format.)

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Zemyla
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45 posts		 Apr-27-12, 06:04 PM (EDT)
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3. "RE: Audio File Names"
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   >The reason the older audio files haven't been re-upped with the new
>filenames and ID3 data (because I have all the extant EPU files in my
>own iTunes library, and they've thus been kept automagically up to
>date as the way the program handles these things has evolved) is
>mainly that I a) didn't think anyone would be really interested in all
>that and b) couldn't be arsed to sit through the uploads again. They
>take a while when you have an asynchronous pipe with a smaller up than
>down rate.
You don't need to. There is a command-line program called id3ed, which should allow you to edit the ID3 tags of your MP3s without having to reupload them. Of course, that'd still be a fairly large amount of work, but it'd take less time than reuploading everything.


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