Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all,

I used to have a great script and I lost it

What the script did was searched a directory named say "music"
It searched all sub directories for .mp3 files
Then placeed all the .mp3's into a directory of the band name
It also renamed the .mps "track#, band name, album name" (I think it was)

Anyways, something close to the above would be great.

I searhed and found one but I think it could not search though sub directories.

Thank you for your help.

Hi Komputers man,

I have a few questions to make your description clear:
1. You said after mp3 files are found the mp3's should be placed into a directory with the band name. Is this band name included inside mp3 file name? can you provide me a form of mp3 file or what u need.

2. I didnt understand this point, give me an example then i can provide u a code.

Yes the band name is in the id tag... but not the .mp3 file name.


Sure, for instance the file name would then be similar to this...
10 Stir it up Bob Marley Legend.mp3

Sorry I forgot the song name in the original post.

Basically what my main goal is would be this... after running the script, I would have the directory named music, with sub directories of band names which include all the .mp3's of that band. No sum directories for albums and so on.

I do not care much for the albums to be seperated, I would just like a directory for a band and all their music. If I wanna see what album the song came in I will look it up inn the tag.

Make sense?

I've read ur post and it is still not certain which part of the mp3 to parse.
As long as all mp3's has a spesific form we can parse the album name, or singer. For example when we consider "-" as a delimeter below examples then first part is Group name, second is song name (or the field before the extention ".mp3" ).
AcDc - I Love Rock And Roll.mp3
Skid Row- Youth Gone Wild.mp3
But in ur example "10 Stir it up Bob Marley Legend.mp3" we cant distinguish (parse) name, group name or album parts; so i cant suggest a solution.

So would you be able to write a script that could search a directory and it's sub directories, then group them into directories such as...

Dir = Ac/Dc
- then all Ac/Dc songs simply in this dir by their existing name.

My main goal is to group all songs by band name with only one directory. Right now I have several duplicate songs because some songs are on several directories because of different album name.

I have about 100gb of music, I would imagine I could save several gb's by changing the way I have it organized. After this I will then be searching and removing duplicates.

I think EasyTag can do it .

there are a lot of tools which can do this... the tool i use is itunes. depending on your os you can try other tools...