Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.3) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux I would like to perform more advanced substitutions on filenames generated by the audiocd ioslave. For instance, I prefer to have my filenames in lowercase, in addition to replacing certain funny characters with underscores, substituting _-_ for /, dropping _'s adjacent to .'s produced by previous substitutions, and so on. This operation is simple (well, let's say "possible") to do in sed or Tcl or perl, but a humble regsub can't even do the lowercase bit right. How does this feature interact with the file regular expression replacement system found in KAudioCreator's General Configuration? Are they linked in any way, or do they just look alike?
Advanced filename generation doesn't sound like a job for an ioslave.
Some of these features are contained in http://freshmeat.net/projects/musicman/.
I agree, lowercase filenames are the biggest non-feature of kaudiocreator. Musicman is a good temp-fix, but it would be nice if an extra step wasnt needed for that...
If the regsub will not be expanded to a full sed/Tcl/perl program or even a variadic-length list of regsubs, I feel it should be removed entirely. It's pathetic and doesn't provide enough utility to justify its existence.
It is fairly pathetic in current form, but this really should be improved and not removed. Lowercase support is sorely missing, and a perl or sed expression eval shouldn't be too hard to impliment. Music man seemed like an okay fix, but it's been broken for a few releases of kde now. (it works, but the control panel page won't load so you're stuck with it converting to uppercase with underscores....less useful than the current regexp evaluator included with kaudiocreator.) Plus I don't feel you should have to involve 2 separate steps in a simple cd rip to get the file named the way you'd like.
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