What

The main script is tag.sh, it tags flac-files based on a yaml file named tags.yaml. A second script, coverexport.sh extracts the cover from the first file in the provided directory and writes it to cover.png

Why

I have a huge collection of Die drei Fragezeichen CDs digitzed as flac-files. And I always had differences between tags and file names, wrong tags, missing tags and so on. This is why I came up with the idea of having a file inside the folder of each album containing all information I want to tag.

Prerequisites

• yq to parse the yaml file
• metaflac to tag the flac-files
• The files must be in the right alphabetical order

Usage

tags.sh

1. Put the tags.yaml file in the directory where the flac-files are
2. Enter the tag information to the tags.yaml file
3. Put a cover.png into the directory, or export it using coverexport.sh
4. Run the tags.sh, providing the directory with the flac-files, without a trailing /

Examples

./tag.sh 004\ Die\ schwarze\ Katze
./tag.sh "004 Die schwarze Katze"
./tag.sh '004 Die schwarze Katze'

Errors and exit-codes

• please provide directory path of files to be tagged
  • exit-code: 1
• file tags.yaml does not exist in directory [directory]
  • exit-code: 2
• file cover.png does not exist in directory [directory]
  • exit-code: 3
• more flac-files than definitions in yaml: 9
  • exit-code: 4
• less flac-files than definitions in yaml: 7
  • exit-code: 5
• please provide directory argument without trailing /
  • exit-code: 6

coverexport.sh

Run the coverexport.sh, providing the directory with the flac-files

Note

The script tries to export the cover from the first file in the directory Besides checking if a directory was provided, there is no error handling.

Examples

./coverexport.sh 004\ Die\ schwarze\ Katze
./coverexport.sh "004 Die schwarze Katze"
./coverexport.sh '004 Die schwarze Katze'

Errors and exit-codes

• please provide directory path
  • exit-code: 1