[maemo-developers] What's wrong with folder browsing?

[From: Hans J. Koch]

Am Montag 21 Mai 2007 00:13 schrieb Karoliina Salminen:

> 
> Now I could imagine a brilliant tool that would sort of solve this problem:
> A program or script that would run on linux and which would go and scan
> all the subfolders in the media
> folder and put the tags to the mp3-files on place so that the album name
> would be created from the folder name and the track name from the
> filename. Obviously it should do this without re-encoding the files
> (since re-encoding would degrade sound quality in lossy compression). If
> such tool already exists, I would love to hear where I can get it

There are several commandline tools that do things like that, what about
this one (you can find more with "apt-cache search mp3" on a Debian system):

$ apt-cache show mp3info
Package: mp3info
Priority: extra
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 76
Maintainer: Pawel Wiecek <coven at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.8.4-9.2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5), debconf | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/main/m/mp3info/mp3info_0.8.4-9.2_i386.deb
Size: 30294
MD5sum: 1ba2865b321af42f089bb823b500671c
SHA1: 1f459ae83736e9d00fb2af8f11061e7e50fe3053
SHA256: 38de501c7872d7c0078a6158da0ecd52d978da5badd36785cb6e4a906813e7d9
Description: An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
 MP3Info has an interactive mode (using curses) and a command line mode.
 MP3Info can display ID3 tag information as well as various technical aspects
 of an MP3 file including playing time, bit-rate, sampling frequency and other
 attributes in a pre-defined or user-specifiable output format.
 .
 If you prefer GUI you should use mp3info-gtk package.
Tag: interface::text-mode, role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::checking, works-with::audio, works-with-format::mp3


HTH,
Hans