Hello,

Someone I know hosts a web radio program, and would like to publish the MP3s onto his own website. He's using a Macintosh and doesn't have much computer skills.

To make it as cheap and simple as possible, I would like to find an open-source program that could…
1. Loop through the MP3s in a given directory, reading the tags from each (Guest, date, etc.)
2. Build an HTML page from all those infos
3. Upload the HTML to a remote web site through FTP.

Do you know of simple, open-source application that can do this?

Thank you.

I don't think you'll find a single app to do that. Write a script that uses 3 separate tools.
id3tool returns version 1 tags; id3info returns version 2 tags; mediainfo returns mpeg tags. Write a script that reads the tags to extract the desired information into variables then output them to html table entries.

scp will copy a file to a remote site automatedly.

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Er, are you both sure you only want to generate HTML? Surely he also wants an XML feed (atom, rss, whatever) for clients to subscribe to?

As for generating both: I'd just write the programs to do it. I'd use Python, with the help of the jinja and mutagen libraries, but that's just me. RandomTroll's approach will work perfectly well, and it pretty much writes itself once you check those programs out (and learn supporting tools like awk).

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I would suggest taking a look at Wordpress. You don't need to write code to write a blog post and upload a file.

The variety of themes available from wordpress.org allow you to select one that fits your friend's tastes. It's not well known, but themes with static front pages are available.

Read tags maybe this. https://askubuntu.com/questions/2267...-tags-in-shell

Send that information into file or use directly into web page.

The web page could be as simple as text. Use a simple text editor and save the file as text.html to test. If you want fancy then any sorts of web page creators exist. Think google offers a free html5 editor too. https://www.linux.com/blog/10-best-w...builders-linux

Now sending that information to a hosting server would require the name and password (even if it does use ftp). You may have to modify web pages if your links are not dynamic or have been built from scratch to be in the correct naming.

In reality you can make simple web pages in almost any modern word processor too.