[MLUG] fixing CDDB entry using perl

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I was trying to convert some classical audio CDs to flac format using CDex 
with an external flac encoder, but it was producing files that contained 
no data.  After awhile I realized that the problem was due to double-quote 
characters in the song titles.  The flac command contained something like 
-title "%t" such that %t could not contain a double-quote character.  I 
fixed this by converting the quotes to « and » characters (these 
characters were actually used instead of quotation marks in booklet that 
came with the CDs).  The way I did this was by saving the CDDB entry on my 
PC and then I ran this on the appropriate files:

perl -pi -e 's/^(TTITLE.+)\"([^\"]*)\"/$1\253$2\273/' filename

If there were two or more quoted sections per title, I had to run that 
command more than once.  It worked very well.

I wanted to send this to the list in case anyone can use it, or in case 
anyone can tell me a better way.

Mike

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