Smartid3 a Perl MP3 organizer
LATEST UPDATE : smartid3 is now hosted on SourceForge under the name aRanger!
Here you can find some info on smartid3 a perl script which organizes
your mp3 files for you.
DESCRIPTION
smartid3.pl aims at organizing mp3 files automatically for you. The idea
is that you should be able to run the script on a large amount of files
to get them organized in a consistent manner according to your desires.
It works by giving the file name of the mp3 to a number of methods which
each has it's own special way of guessing the song, album, artist title
and track number. Each method has a vote_value which is a notation on
how reliable the method is.
Before all methods vote, there is a preprocessing phase done on the files,
which looks at all the files given and tries to figure out possible albums
and artists. The idea is that albums and artists, shows up in several
file names.
After all methods have voted there are some postprocessing done on the
votes such as checking for strange values such as for instance 'http'
in either entry, which would lead to a reduction of that entry's score,
the entries are also checked to see it the artist is the same as the album
and so on.
Features
Renaming of mp3 files based on heuristics for title, artist, etc..
Viewing of the ID3 tags for mp3 files.
Writing of ID3 tags for mp3 files.
Removal of ID3 tags for mp3 files.
Explicit setting of title, artist, etc.
Logging of file operations
Reverting of operations using log file.
Batch mode (default).
Interactive mode.
User preferences file (.smartid3.rc).
Template file.
Installation
Download (and unzip if needed).
Place smartid3.pl in your PATH, make it executable OR place it anywhere and use the perl interpreter to run it.
Old Downloads
smartid3 download
smartid3 download (gzip)
Download sample RC file (place it in $HOME/.smartid3.rc)
ChangeLog
lsid3 download (Prints info on MP3's)
Documentation
smartid3 POD entry (Documentation/Man/Examples...)
Latest
2001-11-29 Fixed recursion bug. (hopefully=) (Thanks Mark)
2001-11-29 Removed (-M) option, so I guess we're back at 0.1.1, sorry about that. =)
2002-01-29 Incorporated bugfixes from Jörn (See changeLog) (Thanks Jörn!). =)