MusicBrainz tagger for single FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets on Linux console

[adhawkins]

Hi all,

As a bit of a pet project, I've just written a Linux console based tagger for single FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets.

It uses the CUE sheet embedded in the FLAC to lookup the CD with MusicBrainz. It then downloads matching albums and presents them to you. You then have the option of 'copying' the data for a specific album into the tags, and updating the tags in the FLAC file.

It uses s-lang for the user interface, libflac++ to read / write the FLAC, and libmusicbrainz to communicate with the MusicBrainz server.

A screenshot is attached.

It's not 'packaged' properly yet, but I'd be happy to provide a copy and some brief instructions to anyone if they want to give it a go.

Anyone interested?

Andy

[adhawkins]

Hi,

In article <20060915171915.12854.qmail (AT) web60421 (DOT) mail.yahoo.com>,
Josh Coalson<xflac (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
> that's very cool. if you host it somewhere, let me know and I'll
> link to it on the FLAC site.

Ok, I might knock up a quick web page for it and stick it online somewhere.

I'll post here if and when I do.

Cheers

Andy

[adhawkins]

Hi,

In article <20060915171915.12854.qmail (AT) web60421 (DOT) mail.yahoo.com>,
Josh Coalson<xflac (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
> that's very cool. if you host it somewhere, let me know and I'll
> link to it on the FLAC site.

Ok, I've put v0.01 online

http://www.gently.org.uk/flactags

Comments welcome.

Andy

[adhawkins]

Hi,

v0.02 now available. This includes the ARTISTSORT tag, and also handles
multi-disc album sets correctly.

http://www.gently.org.uk/flactags

Comments welcome.

Andy

[adhawkins]

Hi,

I released v0.03 after finding a fairly crucial bug in the submission URL
generation code.

v0.04 will follow in the next day or two with the ability to rename a FLAC
based on its tags

http://www.gently.org.uk/flactag

Andy

[adhawkins]

Hi,

As promised, v0.04 has just been made available. This version can now
automatically rename the FLAC file based on a configurable template. It can
also download album art from Amazon if the MusicBrainz service has the
appropriate link to Amazon.

http://www.gently.org.uk/flactag

Comments welcome

Andy

[adhawkins]

Hi all,

I think this is now 'feature complete', so the latest release is called 1.0-RC1.

I'd appreciate any comments.

New in this version:

* Handles console size changes
* Album art embedded into tags
* 'Batch' mode to check tags, write tags and rename file
* Fix for bug that occurred when more than one 'release' matched the disk ID

Available for download here:

http://www.gently.org.uk/flactag/

Andy

[JohnSwenson]

This sounds like a neat solution, just one question: what are you using to rip the CD to flac with an embeded cue sheet? I've seen several approaches for doing this on linux, some of which already put a fair amount of info in the cue sheet and some that don't.

Thanks,

John S.

[adhawkins]

Hi,

In article <JohnSwenson.2gz0nz1163017801 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com>,
JohnSwenson<JohnSwenson.2gz0nz1163017801 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:
> This sounds like a neat solution, just one question: what are you using
> to rip the CD to flac with an embeded cue sheet?

I use the following script. I then run flactag on the resulting flac file to
get all the 'useful' info into the tags.

Andy

#!/bin/sh
if [ $1 ]
then

FILENAME="$1-ate +"%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S"-$$"
cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/hdc --driver generic-mmc \
--datafile $FILENAME.bin $FILENAME.toc
cueconvert $FILENAME.toc $FILENAME.cue
if nice flac --replay-gain --endian=big --sign=signed \
--channels=2 --bps=16 --sample-rate=44100 \
--cuesheet=$FILENAME.cue $FILENAME.bin
then
rm -f $FILENAME.bin
rm -f $FILENAME.toc
rm -f $FILENAME.cue
fi
else
echo "Usage: $0 cdname"
Hi,

In gmane.music.equipment.slimdevices.unix, you wrote:
>
> This sounds like a neat solution, just one question: what are you using
> to rip the CD to flac with an embeded cue sheet?

I use the following script. I then run flactag on the resulting flac file to
get all the 'useful' info into the tags.

Andy

#!/bin/sh
if [ $1 ]
then

FILENAME="$1-ate +"%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S"-$$"
cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/hdc --driver generic-mmc \
--datafile $FILENAME.bin $FILENAME.toc
cueconvert $FILENAME.toc $FILENAME.cue
if nice flac --replay-gain --endian=big --sign=signed \
--channels=2 --bps=16 --sample-rate=44100 \
--cuesheet=$FILENAME.cue $FILENAME.bin
then
rm -f $FILENAME.bin
rm -f $FILENAME.toc
rm -f $FILENAME.cue
fi
else
echo "Usage: $0 cdname"
fi

[reverber]

I just wanted to say what a swell program this is!
I just got a Squeezebox and have started ripping my collection (using Charles Steinkuehler's modified abcde and to3cue) to single flac files, then tagging with flactag.

Cody