Re: [MLUG] batch editing ID3 tags - a good FOSS solution?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 3/23/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Fallert, Adam Christian wrote:
>
> > As I just edited about 3000 ID3 tags for use with my Roku Soundbridge
> > using mt-daap (now FireFly http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/) as the
> > music server, I found iTunes to be the best and quickest method, but
> > there is not a Linux version of iTunes as of yet. I also used Rhythmbox
> > (iTunes clone) in Gnome for the task.  Let's keep our fingers crossed
> > that Apple might actually release iTunes and QuickTime for Linux. I just
> > installed Linux on my Playstation 3 and I would love to be able to
> > download episodes to it and play them back on my TV.
> >
> > Good luck.  It is a tedious task.
>
> I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing.  I want something that
> allows me to something like this:
>
> id3fixer --artist "The Beatles" *Beatles*/*.mp3
>
> And that would change the "artist" tag to "The Beatles" (without the
> quotes) from whatever it was previously in every file matching the
> pattern.  In this example I'd want to do this for both ID3v1 and ID3v2
> tags.
>
> It might also be possible to append something to a field instead of
> overwriting it, e.g., in a comment field.

As I understand it, ID3v1 is just data written in the last 128 bytes
of a track, and ID3v2 is rather more complicated. You might have to
roll your own for this given an appropriate library. For Ruby, this
looks fairly promising:

http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/Ruby/ID3/docs/index.html

> The goal of batch editing is to reduce tedium.

It reduces tedium once you have the script written. :-)

jking

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