From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2004-03-11T09:13:48+09:00
Subject: Failed to allocate memory error


Hi, all.  I just found Ruby two days ago and I'm extremely impressed with its power and consistency.  I wrote a quick script tonight to go through all the MP3 files in my music directory and see if their tag information matches the file name.  If the two don't match, the file is renamed to reflect the contents of the tag.

It works perfectly, but after a couple of minutes, I get this:

failed to allocate memory
[FATAL] failed to allocate memory

As I've mentioned, I'm extremely new to Ruby, so perhaps there's something wrong with my code.  I've included my code below.

Thanks for your help,
Bill

require 'mp3info'
require 'find'

Find.find('./music') do |mp3|
	next if FileTest.directory?(mp3) or not mp3.scan(/\.mp3$/)
	orig_name = mp3.split("/")[-1].gsub(/\.mp3/, "")
	begin
		m = Mp3Info.new(mp3)
		taghash = if m.hastag2?
				taghash = m.tag2
			elsif m.hastag1?
				taghash = m.tag1
			else
				taghash = nil
			end
		next unless taghash and taghash['artist'] and taghash['title']
		correct = taghash['artist'] + " - " + taghash['title']
		if orig_name != correct
			final_path = mp3.gsub /#{orig_name}/, correct
			puts "#{mp3} ----> #{final_path}\n----\n"
			File.rename(mp3, final_path)
		end
	rescue Exception => e
		puts e.to_s
	end
end

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