The track number is at the beginning of the filename.
Very rarely, it is after an artist name or some such nonsense.
But it is in the filename. Just because some of my mp3s are
approaching eight or ten years old does not give you license
to completely ignore track numbers on the front of the filename.
OBVIOUSLY NUMBERED. Do not take a tightly mixed trance or
poppytechno* album and mix up the tracks so that I have to go
put track numbers in the file info by hand, one at a time to
get the thing to play right on my ipod.
Lazy programmers. There are multiple people reading this who
could come up with less than 200 characters of perl to extract
track numbers from my whole music collection, perfectly.
music: Faithless: Insomnia (dj logik mix)
*custom made up genre
candice at January 5, 2007 03:58 AM
Or Python....let's not forget poor Python! :)
Posted by: Trevor at January 5, 2007 09:12 AM
Yeah but perl is better for sheer brevity.
I was going to say 100 characters of perl, but including traversing the directory tree is some more characters, then the regex.
Posted by: candice at January 5, 2007 02:13 PM
All my mp3 are nice an ordered and freaking iTunes can't pick out the order out of my PC. I have so many without names, unknown artist, when the filefolder has the album name and artist... Always.
Posted by: range at January 30, 2007 09:10 PM
Yup, exactly. I just keep what is on my nano in iTunes, though, so it's a mere 3-4gb of music as opposed to the 40 or so gb (I think?) that are the whole thing.
And that is easy code, is what annoys me so much, it's trivial to make it easier to use.
Posted by: candice at January 30, 2007 09:15 PM