Bash script using eyeD3 to remove extra tags from mp3 files
- by jaguare22
I found what looks like the perfect script for this but getting errors. Hoping someone can see problem. I am running 12.04 Server.
Error is -
awk: line 0: regular expression compile failed (missing '(')
):
awk: line 0: regular expression compile failed (missing '(')
)
The following tags have been found in the mp3s:
These tags are to be stripped:
Here is a the script obtained from savvyadmin
!/bin/bash
Script name: strip-tags.sh
Original Author: Ian of DarkStarShout Blog
Site: http://darkstarshout.blogspot.com/
Options slightly modified to liking of SavvyAdmin.com
oktags="TALB APIC TCON TPE1 TPE2 TPE3 TIT2 TRCK TYER TCOM TPOS"
indexfile=mktemp
Determine tags present:
find . -iname "*.mp3" -exec eyeD3 --no-color -v {} \; $indexfile
tagspresent=sort -u $indexfile | awk -F\): '/^<.*$/ {print $1}' \
| uniq | awk -F\)\> '{print $1}' | awk -F\( '{print $(NF)}' \
| awk 'BEGIN {ORS=" "} {print $0}'
rm $indexfile
Determine tags to strip:
tostrip=echo -n $tagspresent $oktags $oktags \
| awk 'BEGIN {RS=" "; ORS="\n"} {print $0}' | sort | uniq -u \
| awk 'BEGIN {ORS=" "} {print $0}'
Confirm action:
echo
echo The following tags have been found in the mp3s:
echo $tagspresent
echo These tags are to be stripped:
echo $tostrip
echo
echo -n Press enter to confirm, or Ctrl+C to cancel...
read dummy
Strip 'em
stripstring=echo $tostrip \
| awk 'BEGIN {FS="\n"; RS=" "} {print "--set-text-frame=" $1 ": "}'
First pass copies any v1.x tags to v2.3 and strips unwanted tag data.
Second pass removes v1.x tags, since I don't like to use them.
Without --no-tagging-time-frame, a new unwanted tag is added. :-)
find . -iname "*.mp3" \
-exec eyeD3 --to-v2.3 --no-tagging-time-frame $stripstring {} \; \
-exec eyeD3 --remove-v1 --no-tagging-time-frame {} \;
echo "Script complete!"
