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If the files are missing ID3 tags, then there is really no way to get that data from the files themselves. If all the files use a common naming convention, you might be able to parse Artist & Track name from the file name and save that into the ID3 tag -- I assume that's what you're trying to do.

my ($Artist, $Track) = $Filename =~ /(.*) +- +(.*)\.mp3/i;

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Re: Re: MP3 Info from filename?
by Willard B. Trophy (Hermit) on Oct 21, 2003 at 19:57 UTC
    It need not be all doom and gloom if you don't have meaningful file names, but you can identify all the tracks in a particular album. Rocco Caputo suggests in his documentation for CDDB.pm that you can recreate a CD's table of contents from MP3 durations.

    MP3::Info should be able to tell you the track duration with enough accuracy.

    This is all untried. It looks like it might work, though.

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      I found mp3cddb, a Perl/shell program to do freedb queries based on MP3s. It's a little old — it only supports ID3v1 — but it's GPL, so we can fix it.

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