[pyddr-discuss] Some useful scripts

[Joe Wreschnig]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:23, Andrea Landaker wrote:
> Greetings, and thanks for a wonderful DDR program!  I've tried lots of them, 
> but I like pyDance the best.  :-)
> 
> Just thought I'd share some scripts that I've found useful when adding new 
> songs to my collection.  In each case, you should run them from your .pydance 
> directory (or wherever you keep your songs).  I wrote these scripts for 
> Linux, but you could probably run them under cygwin, too.  Maybe someone has 
> already submitted something like this, but I couldn't find it.  :-)
> 
> If you've got a bunch of MP3s in your collection that you want to convert to 
> OGGs, you can use this script to convert them all quickly (I haven't noticed 
> any timing issues or problems with doing this).  This will both convert the 
> audio files and change the filename in the step file.
> 
> find -name "*.dwi" -exec perl -pi -e 's/\.mp3/\.ogg/g' '{}' \;

This isn't technically needed, since (from what I can tell) DWI doesn't
use that information anyway, and I know pydance doesn't. It just looks
for music files in the same directory.

> find -name "*.sm" -exec perl -pi -e 's/\.mp3/\.ogg/g' '{}' \;
> mp32ogg --delete .
> 
> Many times people will include both a DWI and an SM file with the same steps 
> for the same song, and it shows up twice in pyDance.  This little script 
> deletes all the DWI files where there is an SM file with the same name:
> 
> find -type f -name "*.sm" -print0 | sed -e 's/\.sm/\.dwi/g' | xargs -0 
> --verbose -i ls -Q "{}" 2> /dev/null | xargs --verbose -p -n 1 rm

Thanks! I've added this one to the FAQ.
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <piman at debian.org>
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