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Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 1

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-have-no-culture dept.

Ted writes "Every self-respecting computer and music fan needs to be able to manipulate MP3s -- the defacto standard for recreational digital music use. In this article, I'll look at ways to manage and manipulate MP3s (searching, tagging, renaming, commenting, etc.) using the autotag.pl application. I'll also take you through the application, illustrating how CPAN modules enable the application."

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  1. Perl.com article by twoshortplanks · · Score: 3, Interesting
    On a similar note, there's a perl.com article on using MusicBrainz that was published recently.

    Identifying Music with MusicBrainz

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  2. Why stop with tagging? by Dr.+Zowie · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Perl (with PDL) is powerful enough to remix, comb-filter, compress, depop, noise-gate, and generally munge your mp3s as much as you want.

    We're in an exciting time when many of the scripting languages are being augmented to be able to handle Real Data (Numpy is another example).

  3. What about emacs MP3 mode? by crow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously, I've been thinking it would be cool to have an emacs mode for MP3 files. The raw data wouldn't be displayed, but the ID3 tags would be available for editing.

  4. MusicBrainz by Mr_Silver · · Score: 3, Interesting
    MusicBrainz::Client and AudioFile::Identify::MusicBrainz were not used because MusicBrainz appears to be a less comprehensive database of released CDs than FreeDB.

    True, but the point of MusicBrainz is not to hold a database of released CD's but more snapshots of MP3 tracks.

    At the moment, without MusicBrainz I cannot automatically populate my ID3 tags with the information about an album unless I get it out of the cupboard and type the details in myself.

    MusicBrainz allows me to do all this without any access to the CD's

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