March 13, 2010 at 02:04Solving mp3 encoding problems
It is no secret that many people still write tags in all kinds of cp1251 and KOI-8R - after which neither phones nor players (some) understand them and there are many problems with linux players.
Most of all, it’s unpleasant that when you download new music, you can’t be sure which encoding tags are used and when you add to your player you find unreadable characters instead of the name of the track, artist and album. But it will also creep into last.fm in this form.
You can use EasyTag and other tag editors.
But most often, I just need to correct the encoding, and the tags are spelled correctly.
Before that, I always used a simple shell script, but decided to make the task a little easier.
We need the python-mutagen package,
create a shell script and add the following to it:
You must be given permission to execute the script.
That's all, you can run (
You will see a dialog box with a directory selection in which you need to put things in order - it remains to select and click “ok”
For convenience, I suggest making a couple more movements:
And now, at any time, we press the treasured alt + F2 and type in
The start button remake.
PS This is the first experience in writing a shell script, for myself - to make life a little easier.
If someone else comes in handy, I'll be glad.
Surely this code is not perfect.
I would be grateful for any advice. For example, how to make a window with a directory selection on QT :-)
Most of all, it’s unpleasant that when you download new music, you can’t be sure which encoding tags are used and when you add to your player you find unreadable characters instead of the name of the track, artist and album. But it will also creep into last.fm in this form.
You can use EasyTag and other tag editors.
But most often, I just need to correct the encoding, and the tags are spelled correctly.
Before that, I always used a simple shell script, but decided to make the task a little easier.
Here is the solution:
We need the python-mutagen package,
sudo aptitude install python-mutagencreate a shell script and add the following to it:
$ touch mp3.sh
$ nano mp3.sh
#!/bin/sh
FILE=`zenity --file-selection --directory --title="Выберите путь к крякозябрам"`
case $? in
0)
echo "Выбран \"$FILE\".";;
1)
echo "Файл не выбран.";;
-1)
echo "Файл не выбран.";;
esac
cd "$FILE" || exit;
(find -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mid3iconv -e KOI8-R --remove-v1; find -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mid3iconv -e CP1251 --remove-v1)|zenity --progress --pulsate --auto-close --text "идет процесс" --title "Меняем кодировку"
zenity --info --text="теперь у Вас православный UTF"
You must be given permission to execute the script.
chmod u+x mp3.shThat's all, you can run (
$ sh mp3.sh) and specify the folder where you want to fix the encoding. You will see a dialog box with a directory selection in which you need to put things in order - it remains to select and click “ok”
For convenience, I suggest making a couple more movements:
sudo mv mp3.sh /usr/bin/mp3And now, at any time, we press the treasured alt + F2 and type in
mp3The start button remake.
PS This is the first experience in writing a shell script, for myself - to make life a little easier.
If someone else comes in handy, I'll be glad.
Surely this code is not perfect.
I would be grateful for any advice. For example, how to make a window with a directory selection on QT :-)