Posts Tagged ‘Perl’

Converting audiobooks to m4b sucks!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Ok, I download stuff from the internet so sue me! Since I'm an iSheep I want to use my iPod/iPhone to listen to to my audiobooks that I download. The problem with this is that all releases are in MP3 format and this messes up my play lists when doing a shuffle of all songs; all of a sudden there is a chapter from an audiobook read. So, what to do. A cupple of months ago I wrote a script that converted m3u to m4b, and now I've rewritten it. So, here it is! Execute the script with directory-with-m3u-files as argument.

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Perl 5.8.8 sucks, or the lack of Perl 5.10 on my box sucks! Really

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Been struggling with a regexp using perl since I couldn't get sed to work as I wanted (mainly "+" sucks with sed).

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