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Using CDDB to Fill ID3 Information in Existing MP3s?
masonbrown asks: "I've got about 2000 songs in my MP3 collection, using iTunes on the Mac. I'd love to fill in the empty ID3 tags such as Album Title, Date, etc. automatically from something like CDDB. Is there any way to automate this after the song is already in MP3 format (like going by Artist and Song Title)?"
The dude asked for help.
No, he didn't. He sassed the poster (who had even offered a helpful explantion of those scary 76 characters of code), played dumb (I say "played" because in the same breath he claimed to be a coder), and then demanded help.
If he were asking for help, he might have said, "I don't get it! Please tell me more about what 'tr' does!" But he wasn't asking for help, he was throwing a tantrum.
There are plenty of folks too busy working at their own specialties to learn ours, from farmers to firefighters. The "but it is so simple for ME" attitude is one more reason why Linux is having such a hard slog at displacing Windows.
I neither said nor implied that it was easy for anybody. All specialties require time and effort; otherwise they wouldn't be specialties. I've helped lots of specialists, from artists to writers to anthropologists to philosophers to grandmothers, gain some geeky knowledge. They were all looking to get something done, and were glad to spend some time learning whatever was necessary to help them get there. Symmetrically, I've been glad to put in some time and elbow grease to learn things in other realms when I've needed it.
But for the times when I'm not willing to learn how to do it myself, I expect to pay up to have somebody do it for me, and I try to do it with appropriate humility. This guy is saying, "Gosh, I want to do something with my computer, I don't know how, and I'm not willing to learn a thing. So somebody do it for me right now!" This attitude might work if you are Veruca Salt. But although I've helped hundreds of strangers gratis, he won't get anything from me without cash up front.
Windows is an OS for people who are builders, creators and makers of things IN FIELDS OTHER THAN PROGRAMMING!
Close. If you change it to "...for people with a credit card who are...", then you've got it. Windows is, by design, a consumer product, and billg likes it just fine that way. Unix systems provide you with tools; Windows provides you with sealed "solutions". If your problem matches one of their solutions, you're happy. If not, you generally need to whip out that credit card.