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Quick and dirty shell utility for non-destructively mass-setting metadata on a music album in a folder
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#! /bin/bash | |
echo -n "Name of artist: " | |
read ARTIST | |
echo -n "Name of album: " | |
read ALBUM | |
echo -n "Year of album: " | |
read YEAR | |
FILES=$(ls $1 | grep -Ei ".(mp3|flac|opus|wav|m4a|ogg)") | |
mkdir "$1/$ALBUM" | |
SAVEIFS=$IFS | |
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b") | |
trap 'IFS=$SAVEIFS; exit 1;' INT | |
for f in $FILES | |
do | |
echo "For track filename $f" | |
echo -n "Track title for $f: " | |
read TITLE | |
echo -n "Track No. for $f: " | |
read TRACK | |
ffmpeg -i "$1/$f" -metadata artist="$ARTIST" -metadata album="$ALBUM" -metadata date="$YEAR" -metadata track="$TRACK" -metadata title="$TITLE" -codec copy "$1/$ALBUM/$f" | |
done | |
IFS=$SAVEIFS |
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