Script to repair flawed id3 tags

tagfix.sh (text/plain), 1.12 KB, created by Tom Noonan on 2005-11-04 02:46:27 UTC

#!/bin/sh
#fixtags.sh - Script by TJNII to fix the tags on mp3 files in the
# directory pointed to by $1
# Requires id3convert and id3

# Generate a list of file to fix
find "$1" -iname "*.mp3" > filelist.tmp

# Find the count
MAXCOUNT=`cat -n filelist.tmp | grep .mp3 -c -i`

for (( COUNT = 1 ; COUNT <= MAXCOUNT ; COUNT++ ))
do
     FNAME=`head -n $COUNT < filelist.tmp | tail -n 1`
     echo "Fixing $FNAME"

     ID3ARTIST=`id3 "$FNAME" -l -R | grep Artist | sed -e 's/Artist: //g'`
     ID3TITLE=`id3 "$FNAME" -l -R | grep Title | sed -e 's/Title: //g'`
     ID3ALBUM=`id3 "$FNAME" -l -R | grep Album | sed -e 's/Album: //g'`
     ID3YEAR=`id3 "$FNAME" -l -R | grep Year | sed -e 's/Year: //g'`
     ID3TRACK=`id3 "$FNAME" -l -R | grep Track | sed -e 's/Track: //g'`
     ID3COMMENT=`id3 "$FNAME" -l -R | grep Comment | sed -e 's/Comment: //g'`

#     echo "Gathered $ID3ARTIST $ID3TITLE $ID3ALBUM $ID3TRACK $ID3YEAR $ID3COMMENT"

     id3convert -s "$FNAME"
     id3 -t "$ID3TITLE" -T "$ID3TRACK" -a "$ID3ARTIST" -A "$ID3ALBUM" -y "$ID3YEAR" -c "$ID3COMMENT" "$FNAME"

#     sleep 2

done

echo "Recoded $MAXCOUNT id3 tags."
rm filelist.tmp