NULL mag Issue 08 25 Import mp3 files with tags

eZine lover (@eZine)

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 · 3 years ago

  

 

 
    while i was reading some text messages in fsx, someone was asking  
    about a script to add ID3 tags/data to various MP3 files he had. i am  
    not sure how he was imagining to implement this, but below is a simple  
    way to do so. 
     
    i used BASH for simplicity and flexibility. after search some  
    utilities to get the ID3 tags, i finally chose MP3INFO, mainly because  
    it has a nice way to format the output format. very simple and slick.  
    so to use the script below, make sure to install mp3info. 
     
                      sudo apt-get install mp3info 
                       
    you could also use ffprobe, which comes with ffmpeg, so you probably  
    have it all ready in your computer, eyeD3 or any other utility. 
     
    the script examines a mp3 file for ID3 tags and writes them to a temp.  
    file_id.diz file. then it takes the original mp3 file and the  
    file_id.diz and creates a new archive (zip) with both of them, simply  
    just stored. no compression, there is no need. 
     
    this way, you can take the .zip files and upload them to any BBS. the  
    BBS server, will check for the .diz file and add it as a description  
    in the file area. simply enough... :) 
     
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#!/bin/bash 

spacer="--------------------------------------" 

for file in "$@"; do 
  echo $file 
  echo "$spacer" > file_id.diz 
  mp3info "$file" -p "\x0E %t\n" >> file_id.diz 
  echo "$spacer" >> file_id.diz 
   
  mp3info "$file" -p "Size  : %k KB\t\Durat.: %mm %ssec\nLayer : \ 
  %L\tStereo: \%o\nArtist: %a\nAlbum : %l\nGenre : %g\tYear: %y\n"\ 
   >> file_id.diz 
    
  echo "$spacer" >> file_id.diz 
  zip -0 "$file".zip "$file" file_id.diz 
  rm -f file_id.diz 
done 

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