When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a
conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when
you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks
are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far
more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot
the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really
in business to give people what they want. It's the truth.
The crap dished out on the Indian tv is mind numbingly bad. The
actors in those serials go through the complete spectrum of human
emotions in 30 minutes (even less than 30 minutes, if you factor in
the ads). The really disheartening part about the whole thing is that
there is no conspiracy.
The -d wav -f - argument to ogg123 make it(ogg123) use the WAV driver
and output the result to the stdout (given by -f -). The stdout from
ogg123 is passed to lame, which converts the wav to mp3. Caveat: The
id3 info in the spx file is lost and you have to add that to the mp3
files manually.
One interesting thing I came to know in this was how to loop over
files with spaces in them. This is done by piping the result of find
to the while read part. More details of this is here
Do you regularly troll through YouTube looking for episodes of your
favorite TV shows or to find scenes from a movie you are planning to
go to or to find recordings from a conference you could not attend?
