[LAU] Generic ipod: ogg vorbis tag name weirdness

My imitation ipod plays oggs. They all seemed to be tagged correctly,
but some always showed up as Unknown Artist etc.

Couldn't figure it out till I looked at the tags with vorbiscomment.
THe only difference was that the 'Unknown' files had tagnames in lower
case, like title=badum-badum. Known files had TITLE=etc.

Here's a short script to fix this up, and add discnumber tag for good
measure (which my player seem to need)

#! /bin/bash
# capitalise tag names on today's ogg files
# add discnumber tag if not already there

for ogg in $(find . -mtime -1 -name '*.ogg'); do
   vorbiscomment -l $ogg | sed 's/.*=/\U&/g' > "$1{1%%.ogg}.tag"
   if [ `grep -c DISCNUMBER $1{1%%.ogg}.tag` -eq 0 ]
     then
       echo "DISCNUMBER=1" >> "$1{1%%.ogg}.tag"
   fi
   vorbiscomment -w -c "$1{1%%.ogg}.tag" $ogg
   rm -f "$1{1%%.ogg}.tag"
done

The discnumber tag could be added with vorbiscomment's -a flag, but oh
well...

I got the temporary file bit from some guy on the Arch forums, so thanks
whoever you are.
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Received on Tue Oct 5 16:15:02 2010