I had some audio tracks which weren’t tagged, but did have filenames containing the artist, title etc, so I whipped up a quick Perl script to sort them out – retag-by-filename.pl.
It takes a regular expression with named captures for track, title, artist and comment, and sets the tgs on the file as appropriate.
It makes use of Music::Tag to do the actual tagging and Getopt::Lucid to read the options supplied, and requires Perl 5.10.0 for named regex captures (and ‘say’).
A --dry-run option allows you to check that the filenames are being parsed correctly by your regex before actually writing tags.
See retag-by-filename.pl for the full details.
Well I have so many mp3 files than now I do not care about them. I just select my favourite ones and store them in some different folder and use them and whenever I format my machine I never took those folders except my favourite ones.
Managing music files is really a waste of time. But thanks to you that you have got the solution for this.
yup, so many music files is quite headache, better only keep those that you like and delete off all those you seldom listen one.
I have many mp3 file, it is hard to arrange or format. some I want to listen anymore, some I want to delete. when I format them, all of them will be lost from my mp3 play station
Old files are really burden to me. I am not able to delete them as I think that this can have some useful data and storing them and looking at them is always waste of time.
I am planning to buy an external hard disk and will save these unwanted music files and other files at there.
What do you think ?
@”River Plac Austin TX” – space isn’t the issue, properly tagged files are.
Disc space is so cheap these days, there’s no need to delete anything that you’d rather keep :)