[PLUG] scripting/id3ed help

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

My scripting ability is limited to looking at existing scripts, trying
to figure out how and why they work, and using those guesses to modify them.

I have a number of flac files I have burned as audio-cd, and want to now
convert the flac files to a compressed format.  I have a simple script
that does flac2ogg, but ogg doesn't play well with my cd player, so I
want to convert to mp3, that does.  I found the following script that
accomplishes this with flac and lame (for audio conversion) and metaflac
and id3ed (for tag conversion).

===== start =====

#!/bin/bash

PRESET=$1
DESTDIR=$2

if test "x$PRESET" = "x"; then
  PRESET=extreme
fi

if test "x$DESTDIR" = "x"; then
  DESTDIR=.
else
mkdir -p "$DESTDIR"
fi

echo
echo "Preset=$PRESET Destination=$DESTDIR Source=`pwd`"
echo

for a in *.flac
do
      OUTF=`echo "$a" | sed s/\.flac/.mp3/g`

      echo
      echo "Source=`pwd`/$a Destination=$DESTDIR/$OUTF"
      echo

      ARTIST=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=ARTIST | sed s/.*=//g`
      TITLE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=TITLE | sed s/.*=//g`
      ALBUM=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=ALBUM | sed s/.*=//g`
      YEAR=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=DATE | sed s/.*=//g`
      GENRE=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=GENRE | sed s/.*=//g`
      TRACKNUMBER=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=TRACKNUMBER | sed s/.*=//g`
      COMMENT=`metaflac "$a" --show-tag=DESCRIPTION | sed s/.*=//g`

      echo
      echo "Launching: flac -c -d $a | lame --preset $PRESET -
$DESTDIR/$OUTF"
      echo

      flac -c -d "$a" | lame --preset $PRESET - "$DESTDIR/$OUTF"

      echo
      echo "Setting id3 ($TITLE, $TRACKNUMBER, $ARTIST, $ALBUM, $GENRE)"
      echo

      if test "x$TITLE" != "x"; then
        id3ed -sq "$TITLE" "$DESTDIR/$OUTF" > /dev/null
      fi

      if test "x$TRACKNUMBER" != "x"; then
        id3ed -kq "$TRACKNUMBER" "$DESTDIR/$OUTF" > /dev/null
      fi

      if test "x$ARTIST" != "x"; then
        id3ed -nq "$ARTIST" "$DESTDIR/$OUTF" > /dev/null
      fi

      if test "x$ALBUM" != "x"; then
       id3ed -aq "$ALBUM" "$DESTDIR/$OUTF" > /dev/null
      fi

      if test "x$YEAR" != "x"; then
       id3ed -yq "$YEAR" "$DESTDIR/$OUTF" > /dev/null
      fi

      if test "x$COMMENT" != "x"; then
       id3ed -cq "$COMMENT" "$DESTDIR/$OUTF" > /dev/null
      fi

      if test "x$GENRE" != "x"; then
        id3 -gq "$GENRE" "$DESTDIR/$OUTF"
      fi

done

======= end =======

The script originally used id3 instead of id3ed, and lacked conversion
for the year and comment fields.  id3 supports the writing of the year
field, but not the comment field, so first I modified it to support the
year field.  That worked.

So then I noticed that I also had id3ed which supports the comment
field, so, after reading the id3ed man page, I reworked the script to
above.  Now it chokes and stalls.

Any ideas what I did wrong and suggestions?

Switching

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