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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Renaming a Number of Files Post 302204884 by doraiashok on Thursday 12th of June 2008 09:09:17 PM
Old 06-12-2008
You might want to write a shell script. First get the list of bands then loop for each band by listing their album name and then loop for each song.

This might not be accurate but you might be able to get it to work,

Code:
mpath="/MyMusic"
for band in `ls -p $mpath | grep "/$" | cut -d"/" -f1`
do
  bandpath="$mpath/$band"
  for album in `ls -p $bandpath | grep "/$" | cut -d"/" -f1`
  do
     albumpath="$bandpath/$album"
     cd $albumpath
     fl_lst=`ls *.mp3`
     cd - > /dev/null
     for fl in $fl_lst
     do
        cp $mpath/$band/$album/$fl $mpath/$band-$album-$fl
     done
  done
done

I am using cp instead of mv so that you can test it out. you if you think it works, just change 'cp' to 'mv'

-kj
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-13-2008 at 02:15 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mp3tag

MP3TAG(1)						      General Commands Manual							 MP3TAG(1)

NAME

       mp3tag - view and manipulate ID3v1 tags.

SYNOPSIS

       mp3tag [ -s song ] [ -a artist ] [ -l album ] [ -y year ] [ -e comment ] [ -k track ] [ -g genre ] [ -r ] file [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly documents the mp3tag command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the orig-
       inal program does not have one.

       mp3tag is a program that allows you to both view and manipulate ID3v1 metadata tags. Running the command with just a filename will  display
       the file's current tag. Setting some options will cause the tag to be updated and displayed.

OPTIONS

       -a artist
	      Set the artist name to artist. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -e comment
	      Set the comment to comment. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -g genre
	      Set  the	genre to genre. This is a single integer with a value of 0 to 254 corresponding to the appropriate Winamp compatible genre
	      (use '-g list' to list all supported genres).

       -k track
	      Set the track number to track. This is a single integer with a value of 0 to 255. Specifying this field truncates the comment  field
	      to twenty-eight characters, as per the ID3v1.1 standard.

       -l album
	      Set the album name to album. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -r     Merge new tag with any preexisting tag in the file.

       -s song
	      Set the song name to song. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -y year
	      Set the year to year. Strings over four characters are truncated.

EXAMPLES

       Display foo.mp3's current ID3v1 info:

	      mp3tag foo.mp3

       Set foo.mp3's artist to 'Bar', and album to 'Baz':

	      mp3tag -a Bar -l Baz foo.mp3

       Set foo.mp3's year to 2001, merging it with any tag already present:

	      mp3tag -y 2001 -r foo.mp3

AUTHOR

       mp3tag was written by Bram Avontuur <bram@avontuur.org>.

       This manual page was written by Brian Boucheron <brian@boucheron.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       More info on ID3v1 can be found at <http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html>.

								 February 19, 2004							 MP3TAG(1)
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