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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 Michael.Forman · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I'm the original poster and I agree with you totally! I do not tollerate spaces in my Unix filenames with the sole exception of mp3 files.

    As a matter of fact, that's one of the main reasons I wrote my ren-regexp perl script. For files with unsightly spaces I simply type:
    ren-regexp "s/ /-/g" *\ *
    and my files are sane again.

    Isn't that strange that I prefer my mp3 file names with spaces? I never really thought about it until now. :)

    Michael.

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  2. Re:Mmm Perl by arkanes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    DnD not working with filenames with spaces in them is because broken applications don't correctly or fully implement XDnD. You're limiting yourself because of flaws in your software and claiming the moral high ground?