mp3cddb ------- About ----- Mp3cddb is a small perl script that helps you recognizing your unknown music albums. If you have a complete music album in MPEG layer III (.mp3) compressed audio format, but you don't know its artist/title/the names of the songs/etc, you only know that it's a complete album and the files are in a correct order (e.g. track01.mp3, etc), mp3cddb analyzes these files and tries to identify the album using the compact disc database at www.cddb.com. If this database contains information about the album you're looking for, mp3cddb saves all information in a file called "cddbinfo.txt". This information usually consists of the performer, the title of the album and the titles of the tracks. You can then edit this plain textfile, if necessary, insert any additional information (comment, year, genre) or modify the existing. Then mp3cddbtag, a small shell script (also included) processes this file, tags (adds these information to the .mp3 file using the ID3v1 format) and renames your .mp3 files. Requirements ------------ This system has been written and tested on a Linux system and it requires the GNU Bourne Again Shell (bash). This is included in the most of Linux distributions, but is also downloadable at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/bash/. Additional software required: * a Perl interpreter (http://www.perl.com) * the CDDB module for Perl (http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/R/RC/RCAPUTO/CDDB-1.02.tar.gz) * the MPEG::MP3Info module for Perl (http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/CNANDOR/MPEG-MP3Info-0.71.tar.gz) * the mp3info program (ftp://bimbo.hive.no/pub/mp3info/) The Perl interpreter and mp3info are likely available in pre-made packages for your distribution. If you use Debian GNU/Linux, you need the following packages: perl, mp3info. For more information, visit the website of your distribution. Usage ----- First, try to identify your files using mp3cddb. Please note, that the order of the files does matter, since CDDB stores the information about albums using an identification number, which is calculated using the order and the lenght of the tracks. The names of the files are not important, as long they are in the correct order (alphabetically). If you've got the information in cddbinfo.txt, modify it according to your needs, then run mp3cddbtag to tag & rename your files. Example: [bali 00:16 ~/jamiroquai]$ ls -la total 26873 drwxr-xr-x 2 bali users 1024 Nov 25 00:16 . drwxr-xr-x 57 bali users 6144 Nov 25 00:15 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bali users 5874284 May 12 1999 1.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 bali users 7159436 May 12 1999 2.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 bali users 6209954 May 12 1999 3.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 bali users 8151582 May 12 1999 4.mp3 [bali 00:16 ~/jamiroquai]$ mp3cddb * searching for discid: 1d047304, total tracks: 4, total time: 1139 ... trying us.cddb.com:8880... match: rock 31047b04 Jamiroquai/Virtual Insanity saving information to cddbinfo.txt... [bali 00:17 ~/jamiroquai]$ mp3cddbtag cddbinfo.txt processing cddbinfo.txt (Jamiroquai / Virtual Insanity)... tagging 4 tracks... 1. Jamiroquai / Virtual Insanity (Virtual Insanity) [Other] 2. Jamiroquai / Do You Know Where You're Comin (Virtual Insanity) [Other] 3. Jamiroquai / Bullet (Virtual Insanity) [Other] 4. Jamiroquai / Virtual Insanity(Album Version (Virtual Insanity) [Other] done. [bali 00:17 ~/jamiroquai]$ Author ------ The mp3cddb script is based on the mp3tocddb script of Meng Weng Wong. Minor modifications, this page and the mp3cddb script were made by Andras Bali. The original mp3tocddb script by Meng Weng Wong is included in the MPEG::MP3Info module for Perl (see Requirements). Contacting me ------------- Please feel free to contact me if you have ideas, suggestions, problems, found some bugs, or just want to tell me what you think of it. * E-mail: drewie@bigfoot.com * IRC: [drewie] on iRCnet, usually channels #linux.hu and #mp3.hu * ICQ: 13555242 (please use it only when it's absolutely neccessary, because it sucks