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hildebrand
post Sep 20 2009, 02:02 AM
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I am starting this thread with a long term perspective to put together lots of useful information for our programs.
Request all to participate in this thread to spread the word about all the lovely things that can be done on Linux.

The distribution I use is Debian (from www.debian.org) but most tricks shall be generic in nature (program based). Many of the softwares are available on windows also so some tips maybe applicable for their windows versions also.

This post has been edited by hildebrand: Oct 10 2009, 07:19 PM

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“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

Please Visit
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http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Sep 20 2009, 02:13 AM
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Tip #1: Converting bitrate of mp3 files

I sometimes have the requirement to convert high bitrate files to lower bitrate ones so that they are of smaller sizes on websites.
I normally use the lame mp3 encoder for this purpose (also available on windows).

Suppose you have a file abc.mp3 (of say 128 kbp s although its immaterial) to be converted to def.mp3 of bitrate 16 kbps then command for it is:-

lame -b 16 abc.mp3 def.mp3

Its possible to write a script to convert many files as a batch.

Note that 16 is just a number. you can convert to other standard values also although in general converting to higher values is not suggested.
The permitted values are as follows:-

For MPEG1 (sampling frequencies of 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz)
n = 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320

For MPEG2 (sampling frequencies of 16, 22.05 and 24 kHz)
n = 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 144, 160


It is also possible to change the sampling rate also with the following switch:-

-s sfreq
sfreq = 8/11.025/12/16/22.05/24/32/44.1/48


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Samandar ko Baandhe Aisa Koi Ghaat Nahi, Kadmon ko thaame aisi koi baat nahin Patli si dhaara samundar mein milti hai, milkar ke kho jaati hai, ghaat ghaat hi rehte hain woh samundar ho jaati hai, karlo jo chaaho, banlo jo chaaho

“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

Please Visit
http://www.anmolfankaar.com: A website dedicated to Artists of the Indian Subcontinent. Now follow it on twitter too. http://twitter.com/anmolfankaar

http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Sep 20 2009, 02:15 AM
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Tip #2 : Zipping files

It is possible to zip a file very simply with the zip command.

zip zipfilename.zip file1 file2 ....

I once had a requirement to convert bitrate (as in Tip #1) and zip as well for which I have a readymade one. it converts all mp3 files in a folder and zips them too.

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Samandar ko Baandhe Aisa Koi Ghaat Nahi, Kadmon ko thaame aisi koi baat nahin Patli si dhaara samundar mein milti hai, milkar ke kho jaati hai, ghaat ghaat hi rehte hain woh samundar ho jaati hai, karlo jo chaaho, banlo jo chaaho

“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

Please Visit
http://www.anmolfankaar.com: A website dedicated to Artists of the Indian Subcontinent. Now follow it on twitter too. http://twitter.com/anmolfankaar

http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Sep 20 2009, 02:21 AM
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Tip #3: Making list of mp3 files in a folder

There is a perl program called mp3report available for the purpose. (windows version is also there).

Its syntax is: mp3report <directorypath>

It shall make an html file for you with report of file with other track details!
This is the one I use to get track length, bitrate details.

An example snapshot is attached.

Note that it recursively shows all mp3 files (also supports the capitalised .MP3) so you could actually have your whole collection in a single html file. Makes easy to search songs then.

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Samandar ko Baandhe Aisa Koi Ghaat Nahi, Kadmon ko thaame aisi koi baat nahin Patli si dhaara samundar mein milti hai, milkar ke kho jaati hai, ghaat ghaat hi rehte hain woh samundar ho jaati hai, karlo jo chaaho, banlo jo chaaho

“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

Please Visit
http://www.anmolfankaar.com: A website dedicated to Artists of the Indian Subcontinent. Now follow it on twitter too. http://twitter.com/anmolfankaar

http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Sep 20 2009, 03:29 AM
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QUOTE(hildebrand @ Sep 20 2009, 02:21 AM) *

Tip #3: Making list of mp3 files in a folder

There is a perl program called mp3report available for the purpose. (windows version is also there).

Its syntax is: mp3report <directorypath>

It shall make an html file for you with report of file with other track details!
This is the one I use to get track length, bitrate details.

An example snapshot is attached.

HB,

This is very informative. i am sure I will find lots of helpful hints from you.

My 'mp3report' (ver 1.0.2) doesn't give audio details such as KHz, bitrate etc.

Here is another mp3 output utility. This could be useful to some of us who prefer text outputs.

MP3info:
Output:

File: Oot Patang - 1955 - Thumak Thumak Chali Gori - Geeta Dutt & Sudha Malhotra - DN Madhok - Vinod.mp3
Title: thumak thumak chali gori Track:
Artist: Geeta Dutt, Sudha Malhotra
Album: Oot Patang Year: 1955
Comment: Source: Rushin; HF Genre: Ethnic [48]

File: Punjabi-Duniya de malika teri duniya ajeeb hai-HemantK-SulakshanaP-3_20-160.mp3
Title: punjabi Track:
Artist: Hemant Kumar Sulakshna Pandit
Album: Duniya de malika teri duniya Year:
Comment: mahesh kumar sharma Genre: Other [12]

File: RajaHarischandra-1952-prabhu na bisaariyo ji-MRafi-LataM-chorus-3_37-128.mp3
Title: prabhu na bisaariye ji, hari n Track:
Artist: Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
Album: Raja Harischandra Year: 1952
Comment: Source: Kadri420 Genre: Ethnic [48]

File: Rangeeli-1952-saiyan_agar_tum_ho-ShamshadB-3_11-192.mp3
Title: saiyan agar tum ho sher Track:
Artist: Shamshad Begum
Album: Rageeli Year: 1952
Comment: Source: G. Nabee; Mirsa Genre: Ethnic [48]

File: RimJhim-1949-Na tum aaye na neend-ShamshadB.mp3
Title: na tum aaye na neend aayi, tum Track:
Artist: Shamshad Begum
Album: Rim Jhim Year: 1949
Comment: Source: Khawar Sohail Genre: Ethnic [48]

File: Sanam-1951-Mein Kehdoon Tumko Chor-Suraiya-MRafi-cleaned-2_39-192.mp3
Title: main kehadoon tumko chor Track:
Artist: Suraiya, Mohammad Rafi
Album: Sanam Year: 1951
Comment: Source: Kistin; cleaned Genre: Ethnic [48]

File: Shaheed-1948-badnaam_na_hojaaye-SurinderKaur-FilmVer-3_57-128.mp3
Title: badnaam na hojaaye mohabbat ka Track:
Artist: Surinder Kaur
Album: Shaheed Year: 1948
Comment: net video-rip Genre: Ethnic [48]

File: ShivShakti-1952-naina_more--toot_gay_daali-GeetaD-3_20-128.mp3
Title: naina more bhaye baawre ..., t Track: 4
Artist: Geeta Dutt
Album: Shiv Shakti Year: 1952
Comment: Source: Erum Hashmi Genre: Ethnic [48]

File: ShriGaneshJanam-1951-gajaananam--jai_ganesh_jai_ganesh-MannaD-SulochanaK-chorus-3_24-160.mp3
Title: gajaananam ..., jai ganesh jai Track:
Artist: Manna Dey, Sulochana Kadam, ch
Album: Shri Ganesh Janam Year: 1951
Comment: Source: Jayaraman Genre: Ethnic [48]


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post Sep 20 2009, 03:30 PM
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Exon
I also use the same version of mp3report. I have modified the default template to give additional details.

HF is not allowing me to put the code here at the moment.
I am attaching the template I use. This one also shows the track name and artist names! I can add more fields but don't like the entries to become too big.

To use the template instead of the default one, the command is:-

mp3report --template=/your-location/template.html <directory-to-make-list-of>

you could have a different filename of course.

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“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

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http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Sep 20 2009, 03:44 PM
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Tip #4: mp3info
As mentioned by Exon, mp3info is also a very useful software. It can even be used for tag editing!


If you just want track details syntaxi is simply: mp3info <filename.mp3>

e.g.

CODE

mp3info Dil\ thandi\ hawa\ mein\ uda\ jaye_Shamshad\ \ Hamida.mp3
File: Dil thandi hawa mein uda jaye_Shamshad  Hamida.mp3
Title:   Dil Thandi Hawa Mein Uda Jaaye Track: 1
Artist:  Shamshad Begum, Hamida Bano
Album:   Shama                          Year:  1946
Comment: Ghulam Haider, Ehsan Rizvi     Genre: Oldies [11]

When used to find the technical attributes, syntax is:

mp3info -x <filename.mp3>

This gives the track details and the technical information.

e.g.
CODE

mp3info -x Dil\ thandi\ hawa\ mein\ uda\ jaye_Shamshad\ \ Hamida.mp3
File: Dil thandi hawa mein uda jaye_Shamshad  Hamida.mp3
Title:   Dil Thandi Hawa Mein Uda Jaaye Track: 1
Artist:  Shamshad Begum, Hamida Bano
Album:   Shama                          Year:  1946
Comment: Ghulam Haider, Ehsan Rizvi     Genre: Oldies [11]
Media Type:  MPEG 1.0 Layer III
Audio:       128 kbps, 44 kHz (stereo)
Emphasis:    none
CRC:         No
Copyright:   No
Original:    Yes
Padding:     Yes
Length:      2:56


The manpage of the software is available here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/mp3info/mp3info.html

This post has been edited by hildebrand: Sep 20 2009, 04:00 PM

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“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

Please Visit
http://www.anmolfankaar.com: A website dedicated to Artists of the Indian Subcontinent. Now follow it on twitter too. http://twitter.com/anmolfankaar

http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Sep 20 2009, 03:59 PM
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QUOTE(hildebrand @ Sep 20 2009, 03:30 PM) *

Exon
I also use the same version of mp3report. I have modified the default template to give additional details.

HF is not allowing me to put the code here at the moment.
I am attaching the template I use. This one also shows the track name and artist names! I can add more fields but don't like the entries to become too big.

To use the template instead of the default one, the command is:-

mp3report --template=/your-location/template.html <directory-to-make-list-of>

you could have a different filename of course.

HB,

Thanks for the script; I will try it.

Here is another good one, eyeD3

AplamChaplam-1961-subah_hoti_hai_shaam_hoti_hai-LataM-6_39-128.mp3 [ 6.10 MB ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time: 6:39 MPEG1, Layer III [ 128 kb/s @ 44100 Hz - Joint stereo ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ID3 v2.3:
title: subah hoti hai, shaam hoti hai artist: Lata Mangeshkar
album: Aplam Chaplam year: 1961
track: genre: Ethnic (id 48)
Comment: [Description: ] [Lang: ]
Source: Sani Thakur


Is there a way to get a report of V2 tag details?

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post Sep 21 2009, 01:05 PM
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Tip #6 : file
This is a very handy default utility with which you can find the type of any file.

Syntax: file <filename>

examples of usage:

CODE

file sawankenazare_shamshadbegum.mp3
sawankenazare_shamshadbegum.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Stereo


CODE

file khazanchi.png
khazanchi.png: PNG image, 983 x 482, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced


CODE

file mysqltry.c
mysqltry.c: UTF-8 Unicode C program text


CODE

file 0750647167.pdf
0750647167.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4


This utility is particularly useful if by mistake you got a file with no extension or an incorrect one.

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http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Sep 21 2009, 02:18 PM
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Tip #7: extract utility (which uses libextractor)

Similar to the well-known "file" command, extract can display meta-data from a
file and print the results to stdout.
.
Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, PDF, PS, OLE2
(DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), DVI, MAN, MP3 (ID3v1 and
ID3v2), OGG, WAV, EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), ZIP, ELF,
REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT and ASF.
.
Also, various additional MIME types are detected. It can also be used to
compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160).
Homepage: http://www.gnunet.org/libextractor/

Its syntax is extract -f <filename>

Admittedly, it works tag2 although with no extra details (auto-generated from the tag) which it seems to give with version 1.

The below output shows details for a file with both v1 and v2 tags (which are identical)

CODE

extract -f comment diwaliphiraagayi_shamshad.mp3
duration - 2m26
format - MPEG-1 Layer III audio, 128 kbps (CBR), 44100 Hz, stereo, no copyright, original
resource-type - MPEG-1
mimetype - audio/mpeg
description - Shamshad: Diwali Phir Aa Gayi (Khazanchi)
track number - 1
comment - MD- Ghulam Haider
genre - Oldies
year - 1941
album - Khazanchi
artist - Shamshad
title - Diwali Phir Aa Gayi
content type - (11)
filesize - 2.34 MB
filename - diwaliphiraagayi_shamshad.mp3


Following is output with a file with tag of v2 only which shows everything but the extra stuff disappears (probably not coded for). In general though, I feel its a good practice to keep both tags.
CODE

extract -f diwaliphiraagayi_shamshad.mp3
year - 1941
album - Khazanchi
artist - Shamshad
title - Diwali Phir Aa Gayi
mimetype - audio/mpeg
filesize - 2.34 MB
filename - diwaliphiraagayi_shamshad.mp3

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“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

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http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Sep 21 2009, 02:31 PM
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Tip #8 - Software for editing mp3 tags : kid3-qt

This software provides a very useful tagging facility. Both v1 and v2 tags can be put. You can easily select any file in a directory (good for bulk tagging). You can put just one of the tags (usually I put v2 and the other one can just be got by the click of a button).
It has built in genres which is easy to select. Its possible to add extra tags in v2 very easily too.

A snapshot showing the software and options is attached.


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“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

Please Visit
http://www.anmolfankaar.com: A website dedicated to Artists of the Indian Subcontinent. Now follow it on twitter too. http://twitter.com/anmolfankaar

http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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Tip #9: Screen Capture Software
Often for presentations we have a requirement to store a video of desktop to demonstrate features of software.

recordmydesktop is a good lightweight utility to record the desktop. It is available on all GNU/Linux Box

Syntax for using it is simple:-

$recordmydesktop output.ogv

There is another software called xvidcap too but is more crash prone articularly for full size video.

after recording you can resize it to desired size using
CODE

$vlc -I dummy out.ogv vlc:quit --sout "#transcode{ vcodec = theo, width = 512, height = 384 }:duplicate{ dst = std{ access = file, mux=ogg, dst = \"out_512x384.ogv\" }}" --sout-theora-quality=3


PS: approximate size of file was 4MB per minute.

There is a graphical frontend gtk-recordmydesktop also available. Some other softwares like istanbul, captury are also available.

You can also use Shutter from http://shutter-project.org/ which is much more feature rich than some other softwares for the same job.

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“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

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http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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post Oct 8 2009, 11:56 PM
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Tip #10: Zipping and unzipping many files in a folder

Whenever you need to upload many mp3 files its painful zipping each one of them. Usually I put all of them in a single folder and use a custom script to zip all the mp3 files in that folder.

The script I use is as follows:-

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for FILE in *.mp3; do
OUTFILE="${FILE%%.mp3}.zip"
echo $OUTFILE, "$FILE"
zip "$OUTFILE" "$FILE"
done
exit 0


If you want to use the same script, just copy the code to a file (say, makezip.sh), make it executable (using chmod +x makezip.sh) and copy it to your /usr/bin folder. From then on it can be run by you in any folder you want.

Sometimes I have the reverse requirement. I downloaded say 10 files and its boring to unzip all. So I use the reverse script makeunzip as follows:-

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for FILE in *.zip ; do
unzip "$FILE"
done
exit 0


Linux users shall know that zip is a good ethical format to use. Unfortunately, many users upload rar files (which is a non-free standard). So to unrar I use the following script:-

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for FILE in *.rar ; do
unrar x "$FILE"
done
exit 0


For ethical reasons I don't rar. For the unaware, I am reproducing a post on another website on why I one should not use rar.

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Quite a large amount of data has been made available on peer-to-peer networks within the last few years. A lot of people see this a sign of a broader change in relationship between content authors and recipients. Many talk about revolution. Some of that data on these networks, specifically complete music albums, full discographies and movie subtitles, is compressed using the RAR archiver, most often with no real reason. In this document, I want to try to explain why I believe that this method should be avoided in order to make the digital revolution happen faster, less problematically and in a just and non-discriminatory fashion.

Before we make our point, let us tell you that it is really useless to compress audio data which is probably encoded into MP3 or Ogg Vorbis and thus already heavily compressed, leaving very little if any room for additional shrinking using the RAR archiver. For example, full discography of the legendary UK Subs occupies 1037 megabytes of hard disk space as a directory of MP3 files or 1025 megabytes as a single compressed archvive file. The difference is negligible both in terms of disk storage space and connection bandwidth. Off course, you still may want to put all the audio files into one large file, in order to facilitate sharing of the data over a peer-to-peer network. For this purpose, there is available a utility called Tar (see google), which is way faster, smaller and simpler than the RAR archiver. It doesn't perform any compression, just sticks the files together.

Why you should care? Does it matter if you waste only a few seconds of CPU time for useless compression? Maybe it doesn't, but there's another issue; a much more important one. It's that the RAR archives, or at least the vast majority of them, cannot be decompressed with free software. Free software is such software whose license enables it to be run for any purpose, to be studied and analyzed, modified and redistributed with or without modifications and with or without a distribution fee. The growing social movement which has gradually developed around this kind of software within the past twenty years and which has brought to the public such works as the GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems, the Apache web server, the Mozilla Firefox web browser or the OpenOffice.org suite, is generally believed to be an indispensable part of the digital media revolution. Many members of that movement believe that in order to take their case seriously, they have to refuse to use any non-free software.

Unfortunately, there is no free software RAR decompressor that could handle the vast majority of RAR archives currently shared on the network. The official RAR decompressor is freeware and its source code is available, but it still doesn't make it free software at all, as the license still heavily restricts the users' rights and freedoms. There is another RAR decompressor which is available under the free software movement's flagship GPL license. Unfortunately again, that program can only handle archives generated by RAR 2.x and as far as RAR 3.x archives - today de facto standard on peer-to-peer networks - are concerned, only their contents can be listed but no actual data can be extracted. This may never change, since RAR 3.x includes patented algorhitms and it would require a pretty smart programmer to reverse-engineer the format without violating the patents.

In conlusion, it's not possible to decompress modern RAR archives with free software. Therefore, please don't publish or share such archives, since it is discriminatory against members of the free software movement. This movement is part of the same revolution as the peer-to-peer networks are, so we believe that the two communities should cooperate and tolerate each other's ideals. If you need to stick many short files together, use Tar, and if you really need to compress them (or if you don't like Tar for some reason), please use the traditional Zip format which is easily readble by free software decompressors as well. You will contribute to development of better society. Thank you very much.






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post Oct 10 2009, 07:22 PM
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Please note that windows users can also use the zip utility.

You can use UnxUtils available for download from unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Extract the contents of http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUtils.zip to a folder of your choice. Add the local/bin directory to your default path.

After that in shell you shall be able to use zip and other commands!


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“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

Please Visit
http://www.anmolfankaar.com: A website dedicated to Artists of the Indian Subcontinent. Now follow it on twitter too. http://twitter.com/anmolfankaar

http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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Tip #11: Making multibyte zip of big files

Sometime there is a requirement to make many part zip of big files. I used p7zip for it. (available on multiple platforms).

The syntax is:-

CODE

to encode
7z a -v*M/k file.zip file
to decode
7z e file.zip01


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“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”

Please Visit
http://www.anmolfankaar.com: A website dedicated to Artists of the Indian Subcontinent. Now follow it on twitter too. http://twitter.com/anmolfankaar

http://www.shamshadbegum.com : A website dedicated to the Living Legend Shamshad Begum. May She Live Long.

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