From: Robin Stocker <robin@...>
Date: 2012-01-08T03:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Ruby to organize ones music collection

Dwayne Henderson wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> The file- and folder names and ID3 tags in my MP3 collection are messy
> and incomplete, and I figured it was time to do something about it.
> 
> Has anyone here written any scripts to sanitize and better organize
> such collections? I.e. something like File Renamer and Mp3tag (perhaps
> utilizing Robin Stoker's taglib-ruby )?

Yes, see here:

  https://github.com/robinst/brainztag

It's in Python, but it works nicely for my use case, uses MusicBrainz
for correct data and the mutagen library for tagging.


If I were to start a new project like this, I'd probably look at
using fingerprinting to identify the files. This looks interesting:

  http://acoustid.org/

It has a simple C API, for which Ruby bindings would be trivial to
make using ffi:

  https://github.com/ffi/ffi

And for tagging I would of course use taglib-ruby now ;).


Regards,
  Robin Stocker