Hi,
I'm writing something to categorize MP3s, I was thinking of something to correctly "parse"(?) the MP3 into good metadata: If the file has ID3 tags it's good, I read those and use them, if not, I have to rely on parsing the filename, folder/filename, folder/folder/filename... etc.

Instead of assuming that the files are always /(title) - (artist)/, I was thinking of something like checking $1 and $2 against a list of the artists already in the db to see if there IS an artist with that name and mark that as a possible artist, if not, require input from the user, but there are obvious flaws in that. (different ways to type the artist name, typos, punctuations...etc)

Does anyone use a similar technique? or something to achieve the same results?

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Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Re: "Intelligent" ID3v2 Tagger by Chady
in thread "Intelligent" ID3v2 Tagger by The Mad Hatter

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