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 Artist ! -type d -regex "[^.]+"
- 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.