Music Library Cleanup and Merging

Process

• Find all files with incorrect extensions
  • find Artist ! -type d -regex "[^.]+"
    replace "Artist" with directory to search. It cannot contain or be "." due to the regex used.
• Find files that are DRM protected and remove them or the protection

#!/bin/bash
if /tmp/mplayer/mplayer.exe -ao dummy -identify "$1" 2>&1 | egrep -i -q -s "encumbered with drm"
then
        echo $1;
fi

• Find files with special or unicode characters and fix

find . -name "*[$(/bin/echo -e '\201')-$(/bin/echo -e '\377')]*" | tee /tmp/filelist.log

• • \302\264 becomes apostrophe
  • \342\200\231
  • \241\257
  • \242\245
  • \222

• Convert remaining all non-MP3 files to MP3 with same quality and transfer tags
  • Load all tracks into MP3TAG and sort first by bitrate and then by encoding.
  • Go to the bottom and select all wma with bitrate set (missing bitrate most likely means a damaged file)
  • Open Xrecode
  • Drag from MP3TAG to Xrecode all selected tracks
  • Select mp3 output
  • Select encoding rate
  • (optional) Select tracks in MP3TAG by bitrate and choose encoding rate in Xrecode based on source
• Use MP3Tag to normalize track numbers to 2 digits.
  This will help in fixing tags using Jaikoz in a later step
• Open Folder in Jaikoz
  • sort by track number then subfolder
  • open

Tools

• Replay Gain is a technology for audio level normalization.
• xrecode$$ is a tool for recoding to different formats that supports moving of tags.