Bash script for sorting and renaming multiple mp3 files by id3 tags

simonloach · 11-24-2007, 11:18 AM

Hi I have several thousand mp3 files that I would like to sort into directories and rename so that they are all like:

/music/mp3/Artist-Album-Year/TrackNumber-Artist-TrackName.mp3

I have found a program that will return the data contained in the id3 tags (id3tool) and display it like:

./id3tool 10\ So\ Here\ We\ Are.mp3
Filename: 10 So Here We Are.mp3
Song Title: So Here We Are
Artist: Bloc Party
Album: Silent Alarm
Track: 10
Year: 2005
Genre: Rock (0x11)

I just need to find out how to create the directories and rename the files from the output of id3tool.

Thanks for any help.

ilikejam · 11-24-2007, 01:23 PM

Hi.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
TITLE="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Song Title:' | awk '{ for (i=3;i<=NF;i++) { printf $i; printf " " } }'`"
ARTIST="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Artist:' | awk '{ for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) { printf $i; printf " " } }'`"
ALBUM="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Album:' | awk '{ for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) { printf $i; printf " " } }'`"
YEAR="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Year:' | awk '{ for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) { printf $i; printf " " } }'`"
TRACKNUM="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Year:' | awk '{ print $2 }'`"

install -D "$1" /music/mp3/"$ARTIST-$ALBUM-$YEAR"/"$TRACKNUM-$ARTIST-$TITLE".mp3

does what you're looking for.

fancybone · 05-15-2009, 11:25 AM

Thanks, ilikejam, I modified your script to work with id3info instead of id3tool; I don't think id3tool supports id3v2.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
TITLE="`id3info "$1" | grep '^=== TIT2' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"
ARTIST="`id3info "$1" | grep '^=== TPE1' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"
ALBUM="`id3info "$1" | grep '^=== TALB' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"
YEAR="`id3info "$1" | grep '^=== TYER' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"
TRACKNUM="`id3info "$1" | grep '=== TRCK' | sed -e 's/.*: //g'`"

echo "$ARTIST $TITLE $ALBUM $YEAR $TRACKNUM"

mv $1 "$ARTIST - $ALBUM - $TRACKNUM - $TITLE.mp3"

colucix · 05-15-2009, 11:42 AM

You may be interested in eyeD3, which let you rename the files specifying which tags you want to insert. For example:

Code:

eyeD3 --rename="%A - %a - %n - %t" $file

simonloach · 05-16-2009, 05:55 AM

Thanks for the responses, but I think I solved this problem quite a long time ago. I'm sorry I didn't respond I must have completely forgot about this. Hopefully it will be of use to other people.

dantheperson · 12-29-2011, 04:28 PM

and if you save that as reorg.sh you can process all files in a directory with:

for file in *; do reorg.sh $file; done

dantheperson · 12-29-2011, 05:24 PM

Also, to cope with files that have the album track count

#cope with track count e.g. tracknum=10/11
CUTTRACKNUM="`echo $TRACKNAME | cut -c1-2`"