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Oh god, I tried renaming files on my own (and I'm kind of a beginner programmer). Then I found out about unicode problems and then came 2 problems. problem #1

by detox 14y ago

Oh god, I tried renaming files on my own (and I'm kind of a beginner programmer). Then I found out about unicode problems and then came 2 problems. problem #1 was apparently I set the encoding wrong while renaming the ID3 for the music files so the foreign languages turned into question marks. I thought scratch that, time to use someone else's tool. foobar2000 solved everything I had a problem with except problem #2. for problem #2, I have no idea if it'll ever be solved. The question marks or blank boxes ending up on my computer deal with the encoding for the OS itself (or something). And even with multi-language support, windows doesn't let me fix that. There's obviously something wrong when my blank box issue disappears when I restart my computer from time to time...

notJim 14y ago
This is the shitty python script I use to organize music, which seems to work pretty well except in one case[1]: https://gist.github.com/3681165 https://gist.github.com/3681165. For the love of god, try it on a small sample of your music or it will wreak all kinds of havoc and you will yell and curse my name. What it does: takes a directory of folders with MP3s, and makes them into the a directory of folders like yourdir/[ARTIST]/[ALBUM]/[TRACK No.] - [Track name].mp3. More importantly though, I believe it handles unicode correctly, and it's just over 100 lines of code, so you could adapt it to whatever system you prefer. Find the python library called Mutagen that deals with parsing ID3 tags and put it in the same directory as this horrible script. [1]: The one case it handles spectacularly poorly is when you have an album with multiple artists. This could be a soundtrack, a compilation, or even that thing that happens especially often in rap where the artist is like "[Some dude] ft. [Some other dude]". Honestly, I just handle those cases manually, but it might not be that hard to make the script do it right. By the way, I've really only run this script on Windows. There are undoubtedly some tweaks that should be made to make it work correctly on Unix-y systems.
- Radix_ 14y ago
  That's nice, thanks for sharing. I used exfalso, for which mutagen was written, to build a similar directory structure for my music. Mine was "Audio/[ALBUM_ARTIST]else[ARTIST]/[ALBUM]/[TRACK 00]. - [TITLE].mp3" The one thing it did that your script doesn't is it will enter TPE2 if present and backtrack to TPE1. And similar considerations can be entered for adding a disc prefix for multi disc albums. (Since that anachronism is still relevant.) The only problem was I needed to go back through and delete a bunch of empty directories.

by detox 14y ago

notJim 14y ago

This is the shitty python script I use to organize music, which seems to work pretty well except in one case[1]: https://gist.github.com/3681165 https://gist.github.com/3681165. For the love of god, try it on a small sample of your music or it will wreak all kinds of havoc and you will yell and curse my name. What it does: takes a directory of folders with MP3s, and makes them into the a directory of folders like yourdir/[ARTIST]/[ALBUM]/[TRACK No.] - [Track name].mp3. More importantly though, I believe it handles unicode correctly, and it's just over 100 lines of code, so you could adapt it to whatever system you prefer. Find the python library called Mutagen that deals with parsing ID3 tags and put it in the same directory as this horrible script. [1]: The one case it handles spectacularly poorly is when you have an album with multiple artists. This could be a soundtrack, a compilation, or even that thing that happens especially often in rap where the artist is like "[Some dude] ft. [Some other dude]". Honestly, I just handle those cases manually, but it might not be that hard to make the script do it right. By the way, I've really only run this script on Windows. There are undoubtedly some tweaks that should be made to make it work correctly on Unix-y systems.

Radix_ 14y ago
That's nice, thanks for sharing. I used exfalso, for which mutagen was written, to build a similar directory structure for my music. Mine was "Audio/[ALBUM_ARTIST]else[ARTIST]/[ALBUM]/[TRACK 00]. - [TITLE].mp3" The one thing it did that your script doesn't is it will enter TPE2 if present and backtrack to TPE1. And similar considerations can be entered for adding a disc prefix for multi disc albums. (Since that anachronism is still relevant.) The only problem was I needed to go back through and delete a bunch of empty directories.