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Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 2

Posted by michael on from the tastes-great-less-filling dept.

Ted writes "I continues to look at manipulating and guessing MP3 tags with Perl, FreeDB, and various CPAN models via my autotag.pl application. Writing autotag.pl was grueling but fun. I used fuzzy string matching, FreeDB searches, ID3 versions 1 and 2, and lots of text-mode user interactions. It all came together in an application that I tested thoroughly over the course of a month. Info and Slashdot comments about Part One can be seen here, which was posted in December."

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  1. I swear.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    if the next news item refers to undersea stuff (third in a row), I swear....

  2. another rite of passage in perl. by j_d · · Score: 2, Funny

    MP3 renaming scripts now rank right up there with the image/ comic downloader and the templating system. Every perl programmer thinks, at some time, "I could get the funnies this way" or "this would be good to use as a templater", and now we're seeing a lot of scripts for MP3 renaming. It's like there's a perl hive-mind or something where we all think "yeah! social software networks in perl! or, yeah! tiny webservers in perl! wooo"

  3. Re:Mmm Perl by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny
    there's no reason for the gui not to make the correction if it knows it's being dropped in a terminal

    In other words, you wish that all combinations of X apps and terminal programs worked like kwin plus konsole? Whenever I drag an icon into a konsole window, I get a context menu to paste, cd, cp, ln, or mv the specified path into my current shell directory.

    In fact, the quickest way I know of to copy a single MP3 from home to the office (assuming I'm currently using X) is to:

    1. Open Konqueror and select the bookmark for "sftp://myhomeserver/usr/share/media/music/singles ",
    2. Type "cd /tmp" (or wherever) in my konsole window, and
    3. Drag the desired icon into that same konsole window.

    Within a couple of minutes, I have the file in my local /tmp directory. Now that is how GUIs and CLIs are supposed to work together.

    Oh, if you're my boss: just kidding ha! ha!

    --
    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  4. Re:Mmm Perl by Smallpond · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think in Linear A, you insensitive clod.

    it actually looks a lot like Perl:
    sample

    - !//!!1\\\!!!