Tag: bomb

  • 2U

    You know that if you play How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb backwards, you hear Bono giving complete and easy to follow instructions on how to build one?

  • batch renaming iTunes directories

    In partial response to the Ask Metafilter question “How can I rename my music folders on my Mac based on ID3 tags?“:

    #!/bin/bash
    # itunes_sanity.sh - fix dir names created by iTunes
    # only works for mp3s, and not actually tested on a Mac
    # created by scruss on Sun Sep 4 22:05:00 EDT 2005
    
    find "$@" -type d -mindepth 1 | while read directory
    do
      artistdir=$(dirname "$directory")
      firstfile=$( find "$directory" -type f -iname '*.mp3' | head -n1 )
      year=$( id3info "$firstfile" | egrep ' TYE ' | sed 's/=== TYE (Year): //; s/[^0-9]*//;' )
      album=$( id3info "$firstfile" | egrep ' TAL ' | sed 's,=== TAL (Album/Movie/Show title): ,,;' )
      echo mv \'$directory\' \'$artistdir/\[$year\] $album\'
    done
    

    So if you were in the terminal, in your music library (one up from the individual artist directories), and you did:

    itunes_sanity.sh Dan\ Jones Tripping\ Daisy

    you’d get:

    mv 'Dan Jones/Get Sounds Now' 'Dan Jones/[2005] Get Sounds Now'
    mv 'Dan Jones/One Man Submarine' 'Dan Jones/[2003] One Man Submarine'
    mv 'Tripping Daisy/Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb' 'Tripping Daisy/[1998] Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb'

    If that looks okay, run the output through the shell:

    itunes_sanity.sh Dan\ Jones Tripping\ Daisy | sh

    and all should be well.

    You’ll need id3lib, which is probably most easily installed from Fink. Also, this only works for mp3 files; I can’t grok the tag info for AAC files. And finally, this might go seriously screwy on weird characters in filenames. You know my feelings on that …