Voder-Vocoder

Since id3lib is incompatable with version 2.4 id3 tags produced by Sound Juicer, you need to use gstreamer and id3mux to grab the tag info to–for example–renormalize your filenames. Tags can themselves be edited in Rhythmbox.

#!/bin/sh
#~/bin/id3v24-info.sh
#DTPD
for file in "$@" ; do
  TMP=`/bin/tempfile`
  echo "$file"
  gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=/proc/self/fd/0 \
    ! id3demux ! fakesink -t \
    < "${file}" > "$TMP" 2> /dev/null
  for tag in 'title' 'artist' 'album' 'genre' \
      'track count' 'track number' 'disc number' \
      'artist sortname' ; do
    grep "${tag}:" "$TMP" | \
      awk -F "${tag}: " "{ print \"  ${tag} = \" \$2 }"
  done
  rm "$TMP"
done

So my workflow is:

1. Rip a stack of CDs in Sound Juicer.
2. Notice that the tags aren’t right or don’t fit with the other tags in the collection
3. Edit tags in rhythmbox
4. Run a script to renormalize the filename.