[mythtv-users] MythMusic: rebuild music database?

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Tue Sep 25 03:09:14 UTC 2007


> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:05:25PM +0200, Fredrik Hallgarde wrote:
>> matthew.garman at gmail.com skrev:
>> > I have all my CDs ripped to flac and stored on an NFS share.
>> > All the tags were created from freedb.org, so there were quite a
>> > few inconsistencies (e.g. variations on a band's name, extra
>> > spaces, etc).
>> >
>> > I finally got around to making all the tags consistent.
>> >
>> May I ask how you went about to make things consistent?  Tools,
>> scripts, tips etc would be very much appreciated.
>
> It was a mostly manual process, but quite simple.  All I really did
> was make the artist/band names consistent.  I did it all with the
> tool "metaflac" (and standard shell commands).
>
> My music is organized like this:
>
> /media/music/flac/artist_name/album_name
>
> So I cd to /media/music/flac, then do this:
>
>     for i in */*/*.flac ; do
>         metaflac --show-tag=ARTIST $i >> artists.txt;
>     done
>
> Then I could browse through the file "artists.txt" and look for
> stuff that was inconsistent.
>
> Once I found something that I wanted to fix, I'd cd to the
> artist_name folder, then do something like this:
>
>     for i in */*.flac ; do
>         metaflac --remove-tag=ARTIST $i;
>     done
>
> Followed by:
>
>     for i in */*.flac ; do
>         metaflac --set-tag=ARTIST="New Consistent Artist Name" $i;
>     done
>
> That's basically all I did.  Took a while, but from the flac files I
> generate MP3s for my iPod, so I re-generated the all the MP3s after
> fixing the flac files.
>
> Matt

I use http://freshmeat.net/projects/jtagger/

only problem is its java but seems to work well :)


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