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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote:

> This took exactly 10 seconds to find in Freshmeat:
>
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/squell/id3.html


I've been testing the Windows version under Cygwin.  Example command:

find . -name \*.[Mm][Pp]3 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 id3 -M -12 -c "source: 6"

Note the use of find with "-print0" and xargs with "-0": This causes it 
not to fail when there is a space in a filename.  The find command is just 
finding all .mp3 (or .MP3 or .mP3 or .Mp3) files in the current directory 
and all subdirectories, confirming that they are regular files and not 
directories.  Then xargs sends every file to id3 which processes them with 
the following options:

-M   maintain original date stamp
-12  do both ID3v1 and ID3v2
-c   add comment, in this case "source: 6"

(I'm just keeping track of where I got the MP3 file.)

Anyway, this was really sweet.  It was much faster than I thought it would 
be.  The only problem I'm still having is that it doesn't seem to be able 
to work with the "Encoded" tag.

Best,
Mike

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