M3U - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

M3U - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MP3 tags and file names

• IMHO file names should never ever contain anything else but only "printable ASCII" characters.
• letting music file names reflect the contents is sometimes just too much work, so sometimes I abbreviate them to just the track number

I just came across some Glenn Gould albums, and now the file names all look like 99.mp3. I first tried something better than that, but that was just PITA and I stopped it. I did improve and clean the track names themselves though. Maybe they are too long for the iPod now, but they display well in iTunes.

Going Back (Phil Collins album) - I am now a proud owner of this album

Going Back (Phil Collins album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Couldn't wait any longer – and it's pure MP3, purchased and downloaded from mp3.saturn.de.

how to browse music?

Today resp. just now I found "yet another time …", that browsing my music library in iTunes / on the iPod / on the iPhone "by genre" is much more fun, then browsing by name on my file system – what a surprise!
Yet I still insist, that my music library has to be kept "by name" on the file system. Quite a contradiction, isn't it?!? But browsing a huge amount of music, with lots of covers included, that definitely is fun. Have a nice weekend, all of you out there …

my latest ruby mp3 utlity

I purchased recently a couple of MP3 CD-s, and some of them did not contain the ID3 tag tracknum, and obviously some software depends on that tag for presenting the pieces in the right order.
I started writing a utility in perl, but the library I made use of was hopelessly outdated and only dealt with IDv1.
My current approach is a utility in ruby making use of the ruby gem mp3info, that this article is linked to.
In the middle of this tiny project I came to a few important conclusions.
This is the most important one: My MP3 files are named just after their track numbers. That makes life incredibly easy, if it comes to weird characters of whatever origin.
How did I copy the MP3 files from the CD-ROM to my hard disk? Coyping under Linux did not work out, as some files on the CD-ROM just did not get listed, presumably because of their weird names. Copying let's say 100 or 200 files from a Windows computer over the network to a Samba server always stalls and breaks somewhere in the middle. So I decided to always start copying under Linux, find out the gaps using a script, and then copy the missing files using the Windows computer.