Hi Seth,
On 30/05/18 02:08, Seth Stevenson wrote:
Is the metadata being lost because of the conversion.
Things to try:
use rdimport --verbose --delete-cuts --to-cart=[cartnum no leading 0]
GROUP /path/to/file.mp3
with NO other switches and see what populates the Cart data.
rdimport reads some but not all variants of mp3 tag sometimes failing
because of junk in the tag file.
rdimport on the command line is a lot easier to tune then the GUI.
Also:
Look at the file and try and locate the tag data. Tags can be ID3v1,
ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4 and can contain characters which upset the importer.
Some rippers include tag data with ~!@#$%^&*()_+|"?>< ®¥ and other
symbols which bash looks at as commands.
Somewhere I have a script that sets ALL tags to 'null' except Artist and
Title which I run before the audio is imported.
Meanwhile this code helped me import a bunch of files which had tag issues.
-------------------------------------snip--------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/bash
# you need to have id3info and eyeD3 installed
# copy the files you want to import into a local folder and run this
script from within the folder
# this script will extract the Artist etc from the mp3 tag including GENRE
# and make a label on the file that can be used to put the data in the
Rivendell database
# using rdimport --verbose --metadata-pattern=%a-%t-%l-%u.mp3 GROUP the
GENRE gets put on the user line
# there is an upper limit as to how many you can do at once
# WARNING do this on COPIES of the files
# If the files are coming from i tunes check the GENRE has been written
to the mp3 tags
echo "Extracting tags..."
for i in *.mp3
do
TITLE="`id3info "$i" | grep '^=== TIT2' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"
ARTIST="`id3info "$i" | grep '^=== TPE1' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"
ALBUM="`id3info "$i" | grep '^=== TALB' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"
YEAR="`id3info "$i" | grep '^=== TYER' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"
GENRE="`eyeD3 "$i" | grep 'genre' | sed -e 's/.*: //g' -e 's/(.*)//g'
-e 's/^ *//;s/ *$//g' `"
echo "$ARTIST $TITLE $ALBUM $YEAR $GENRE"
mv "$i" "$ARTIST-$TITLE-$ALBUM-$YEAR-$GENRE.mp3"
done
echo "hint: rdimport --verbose --metadata-pattern=%a-%t-%l-%u.mp3
--delete-source [GROUP] *.mp3"
-------------------------------------snip--------------------------------------------------------
all the usual caveats apply.
regards
Robert
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