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Qweasda
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 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject: Print MP3 Id3 tags to file |
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How would I go about this? I want to print the mp3 tags to a file to print, with track numbers.
I first just ls'd the directory and copied/pasted the lines to a text file to print, but they have no numbers. I don't want to manually enter 1500 numbers.
Can mp3info or id3ed do this?
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ggelln
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 9:01 am Post subject: |
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not sure I completely understand what you mean . . .
but lets say you want the track name and title,
this is one whay of getting a list:
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mp3info -p "%n %t\n" * | sort -n > songlist.list
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I put the trank number first because on my system it is not organized in this order so I must use numerical sort to deal with the song order, if you don't like this is would be easy to fix this after.
You can also be much more verbose on the output, lookup 'man mp3info' for format string needs. (ie print filename, album name, etc)
if this is in line tell me!
otherwise I can try to think of another solution
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Qweasda
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply.
That is basically what I want, except I need it to add a number (1 through however many songs there are) at the beginning.
I am doing this because I have a mp3 CD player in my car and would like to be able to look at a print out of songs and go right to track, say, 153 and know what it is.
I was thinking, is there a text editor that can do this? Throw a number for each line? That would do the trick.
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ggelln
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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hold on . . . do you mean that you want the list of files to be numbered, not from the track info, but
in the order it is loaded in your car mp3 player?
makes more sense now . . .
not as sure on this topic. It might depend on how your mp3 player organizes the files, it it does it alphebetically/numerically then it would be easy:
a quick and dirty version would be:
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mp3info -p " %a: %t\n" * | grep -n '.*' > carlist.list
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which works nicely if everything has a id3 tag (otherwise you get some blank title entries)
if this is along the lines tell me, if you are not into scripting I could write the code so that it does more error testing and what not (ie prints the filename if no id3 tag, etc)
Tell me if this works with your player (ie the order matches)
Gabriel
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Qweasda
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Your example was right on target.
I want to add the Track 1 line to the beginning of the song in the list I create. Example -
I have the mp3 called this:
| Code: | | Band Name - Song Name.mp3 |
I want it to look like this in the songlist.list file:
| Code: | | Track 1: Band Name - Song Name.mp3 |
And the next song would have Track 2, the next Track 3, etc.
Just the number without the Track part would be great as well. |
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ggelln
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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okay if you don't want the info from the id3 tag
(see my above edit, changed it before I say your update!)
then do this:
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ls | sort | grep -n '.*' | sed 's/:/: /'
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the last sed part is just because I find the grep output to close to the filename otherwise.
again if I am on track tell me,
I am more than happy to write a more complex fix once we get the design ideas clear.
Gabriel |
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Qweasda
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Great!
| Code: | | ls | sort | grep -n '.*' | sed 's/:/: /' |
is exactly what I wanted. Works great, thanks a bunch ggelln! |
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ggelln
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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good to hear
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Qweasda
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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Well, now I'm just getting picky hehe. 
But, is there an easy way to remove the .mp3 from the end of the name? It just makes the list look a bit better, nothing important though. |
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ggelln
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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sure just add another sed line:
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ls | sort | grep -n '.*' | sed 's/:/: ' | sed 's/\.mp3//'
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nothing wrong with being picky
Gabriel |
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Qweasda
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, I get this:
| Code: | $ ls | sort | grep -n '.*' | sed 's/:/: ' | sed 's/\.mp3//'
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: Unterminated `s' command
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ggelln
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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sorry for the typo, I didn't close the the first sed line
when I retyped!
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ls | sort | grep -n '.*' | sed 's/:/: /' | sed 's/\.mp3//'
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sorry . . .
Gabriel |
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Qweasda
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Thanks again.
Eeek, another question.
Can I output what that command gives me to a file? |
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ggelln
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:00 am Post subject: |
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of course, just use the redirect (>)
therefore the final command would be:
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ls | sort | grep -n '.*' | sed 's/:/: /' | sed 's/\.mp3//' > carlist.txt
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has been loads o-fun . . .
if you have any other scripting problem I hope I can help
Gabriel |
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