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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting a little help with find and directory path for application Post 302582499 by barrydocks on Friday 16th of December 2011 07:27:28 AM
Old 12-16-2011
a little help with find and directory path for application
Just a little backgroud, I have a library of mp3 files in the following structure: /mp3/artist/album/track.mp3
Also contained in each album directory is a cover.jpg which contains the cover art file for that particular album.

I want to add the cover.jpg to the mp3 tag and have been using eyed3 to do this, but would now like to batch process the entire library. Here is the command syntax I have been using:

Code:
find -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec eyeD3 --add-image=cover.jpg:FRONT_COVER {} \;

The problem is that the find command only passes the mp3 file name to the eyed3 command and without the directory path the cover.jpg is not found.

either there is something simple I need to add to the line or create a bash script with variables (this is beyond my abilities :-( )

Thanks for any help!
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dr_unsort

dr_symlinks(1)							  USER COMMANDS 						    dr_symlinks(1)

  NAME
      dr_unsort - unsort the current mpd playlist

  SYNOPSIS
      dr_unsort

  DESCRIPTION
      dr_unsort invokes unsort(1) on the current audio playlist as used by mpd.  Use it if you'd like some variation in your music.

  EXAMPLE
      If The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg is the current playing track and your current playlist looks like

	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/01 Brainfeeder.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/01-Back_in_the_U.S.S.R..ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/02-Dear_Prudence.ogg
      > The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/04-Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da.ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/05-Wild_Honey_Pie.ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/06-The_Continuing_Story_of_Bungalow_Bill.ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/07-While_My_Guitar_Gently_Weeps.ogg
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/02 Breathe . Something_Stellar STar.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/03 Beginners Falafel.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/04 Camel.mp3
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/01-The_Kill-Prison_Without_Walls-Dead_Part_1.mp3
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/02-Deceiver-Lucid_Fairytale-In_Extremis.mp3
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/03-Blind_To_The_Truth-Negative_Approach-Common_Enemy.mp3
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/04-Obstinate_Direction-Life-You_Suffer_Pt_2.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/05 Melt!.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/06 Comet Course.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/07 Orbit 405.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/08 Golden Diva.mp3

      invoking dr_unsort will yield something like e.g.

	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/01 Brainfeeder.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/01-Back_in_the_U.S.S.R..ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/02-Dear_Prudence.ogg
      > The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/02 Breathe . Something_Stellar STar.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/04-Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da.ogg
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/01-The_Kill-Prison_Without_Walls-Dead_Part_1.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/03 Beginners Falafel.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/05-Wild_Honey_Pie.ogg
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/02-Deceiver-Lucid_Fairytale-In_Extremis.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/04 Camel.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/06-The_Continuing_Story_of_Bungalow_Bill.ogg
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/03-Blind_To_The_Truth-Negative_Approach-Common_Enemy.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/05 Melt!.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/07-While_My_Guitar_Gently_Weeps.ogg
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/04-Obstinate_Direction-Life-You_Suffer_Pt_2.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/06 Comet Course.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/07 Orbit 405.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/08 Golden Diva.mp3

  WARNING
      Due to limitations in the mpc/mpd protocol, dr_unsort needs filesystem level write access to mpd's playlist directory.

  ENVIRONMENT
      dr_unsort honors strings DR_PLAYLISTS (mpd's playlist directory) and DR_UNSORT (unsort pathname).

  SEE ALSO
      unsort(1), available from http://packages.debian.org/unsort.

  COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
      This manpage is copyright 2010, 2011 Joost van Baal <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>.

      Draai is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free
      Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed	WITHOUT  ANY  WAR-
      RANTY. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with draai. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

  AUTHOR
      Joost van Baal <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>

  dr_symlinks 20110603						     03 juin 2011						      dr_symlinks(1)
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