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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. Re:Mmm Perl by metamatic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I'd just type " before and after pasting the filename with the spaces in.

    Filenames are for humans, fix the broken software that doesn't allow filenames with spaces in.

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  2. Re:another rite of passage in perl. by haystor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is a testament to the effectiveness of these various languages that just anyone can produce something useful.

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  3. Re:Mmm Perl by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    #!/usr/local/bin/rc

    for (mp3 in *.mp3) mpg123 $mp3

    fails if the filename contains a space

    ls -l *.mp3 | awk ' { print "%s is %d bytes\n", $9, $5 } '

    fails if the filename contains a space

    etc.

    spaces in filenames should be illegal

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  4. Re:Mmm Perl by damballah · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Software problem. Software that do not allow spaces in filenames should be illegal.

  5. Re:Musicbrainz? by Darth23 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Sounds like something worht trying out. In all my years of P2P experience I've learned that there a re a lot of music fans out there who have no clue about what artist performed which songs.

    I just wish there was a way to tell them all that just because a song is a parody, doesn't necesarrily mean it was written and performend by Weird Al.

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