Re: sorting songs to directories

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mikhail Slyusarev
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> I've got a bunch of music that is in one directory and I wanted to sort
> it so I wrote a ruby program to do it. The program basically works, just
> for some reason it misses a few files, throwing TagLib2's 'BadFile'
> exception. However, if I run it twice (just sorting the files it missed)
> it will sort those files correctly. There are more details in the
> comments of the attached file.
>
> Help would be sincerely appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Attachments:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/5766/main.rb

Just a quick check but your regexp for matching songs in line 21 is
broken (you don't anchor so it will match anywhere).  Also you don't
need a capturing group since you don't do anything with the matched
portion.  This should be better:

  elsif /\.(?:mp3|mp4|wma|flac|ogg|ape|wav|vox|aac|m4p|3gp|m4a)\z/i =~ song

Few more remarks.

Line 16: don't do that, it's hard to read and easy to miss that the
last one is actually a Hash.

Line 29: if you make "artists" a Set or Hash you don't need this and
it's more efficient.

The whole approach seems overly complicated to me.  I'd rather do

UNKNOWN = "Unknown Type".freeze

workingDir = ...
Dir.chdir workingDir

Dir["*"].each do |f|
  next if File.directory? f

  dir = TagLib2::File.new(f).artist rescue UNKNOWN

  # deal with the case that there is a non directory
  # with this name
  until File.directory? dir
    Dir.mkdir dir rescue (dir << "_")
  end

  FileUtils.mv f, dir
end

Isn't this basically what your script does?

Kind regards

robert

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