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[hildebrand]

I am starting this thread with a long term perspective to put together lots of useful information for our programs.
Request all to participate in this thread to spread the word about all the lovely things that can be done on Linux.

The distribution I use is Debian (from www.debian.org) but most tricks shall be generic in nature (program based). Many of the softwares are available on windows also so some tips maybe applicable for their windows versions also.

This post has been edited by hildebrand: Oct 10 2009, 07:19 PM

[hildebrand]

Tip #19: Using mp3info to get the information from mp3 files in desirable format

This software had been pointed out by Exon in this thread earlier. I have made a script to show it in the format I want it. (Default one doesn't give the bitrate and time duration information. The order is not intuitive as well.)

This is the script I made:-

mymp3info.sh
mp3info -r a -p "File:%f \nTitle: %t\nArtist: %a\nAlbum: %l\nYear: %y \nBitrate: %.2r\nDuration: %02m:%02s\n" "$1"

This script gives output as shown for a file below:-

mymp3info.sh 01\ TERE\ NI\ KARARAN\ -\ INH100614651.mp3
File:01 TERE NI KARARAN - INH100614651.mp3
Title: Tere Ni Kanaran Mainu Pateya
Artist: Lal Chand Yamla Jatt
Album: Khedan De Din Chaar - LCYJ
Year:
Bitrate: 128.00
Duration: 06:38