Over the years, I’ve ripped CDs in various formats. In the beginning, it was MP3, but I soon switched to OGG. A few years ago I, it made the switch to FLAC. Unfortunately, that leaves me with a large “sediment” of files in lossy formats and I’ve started to rip those again — for the last time, I hope.
The ripping is tedious, but redoing the tags would be far worse. So here’s a script to help avoid the drudgery.
This is how it is used:
$ copytags.rb --help
Usage: copytags [options] from_pattern to_pattern
-n, --dry-run Don't run any commands, just print them
-t, --tag copy tags from matching files (default)
-T, --no-tag do not copy tags from matching files
-r, --rename rename from matching files
-R, --no-rename do not rename from matching files (default)
-q, --quiet Display less information
-v, --verbose Display extra information
-h, --help Show this message
Examples
# Copy tags from 1.Track.ogg to 1.Track.flac
copytags '%.1d.*.ogg' '%.1d.*.flac'
# Copy tags from 01.Track.ogg to 01.Track.flac
copytags '%.2d.*.ogg' '%.2d.*.flac'
# Assuming 1.Song.ogg, rename 1.Track.flac to 1.Song.flac
copytags -rT '%.1d.*.ogg' '%.1d.*.flac'
And this is the script: