Hello,
I am curious whether anybody has a script to write or beautify MP3
ID3 tags. There are a great many solutions out there I know, but they
are all a bloated mess. I am searching something Ruby – professional
and utterly minimalistic – to process large quantities of MP3 files.
I’m still in the midst of learning Ruby, I am not yet able to do this
thing myself. I was hoping for a few pointers here perhaps, or even an
examplary script. Alright, so let’s say you have several terabytes of
MP3 files and run one of the most popular internet radio stations out
there. You have had it with your tags displaying all messy to your
listeners, for instance with all lowercase or uppercase, excess
whitespace, weird characters, offensive comments etc. You want a neat
little script that displays interactively and shows you the common tags
for each album, as well as the differing tags for each individual file.
Each album is organized into its own directory, with an NFO, MD5 and M3u
file
just to clarify. Anyway, because it’s interactive, you’d have the
benefit of seeing everything visually. So you can easily point out
mistakes. You have the option of writing new tags or modifying existing
ones. The script will also make suggestions according to a set of rules,
e.g. to make everything propercase, reduce multiple whitespace, convert
ID3v1 to ID3v2, then safely remove the ID3v1 etc. All this sounds like a
wet dream to me. I’d be surprised if I’m the only one out there that
feels the need for something like this.
Thanks,
João Michigan