I've recently been reorganizing my mp3 collections, and part of the reason was because I wanted to generate a listing of my albums automatically, but with ultimate control over the display. Most of the shareware/freeware converters worked, but didn't give me enough control.
In most things, I code, I try to think of "ok, what if someone else is going to use this?". In that case, I ruled out Mac::iTunes - there's so many dependencies that I'm not even bothering exploring it further (which is unfortunate, primarily for my snap decision). I also ruled out MP3::Info, which had some issues with "originally SoundJam 2.2, but iTunes converted to 2.4, and now they're screwed", and also couldn't get as much information as I wanted. So, using the automatic XML export from iTunes 3.01, I've created a simple Perl script that only requires HTTP::Date (disabling it means commenting three lines). This script: - accepts path to the XML export on the command line. - sucks in all the information in the XML file. - is pretty strict about what is required in id3 tags. - can show what albums have been newly added in the past 30 days. - can show other little bits of information, (I'll be adding more). You can see the output of the script here: http://www.disobey.com/d/lists/cds.html And the source code itself here: http://www.disobey.com/d/perl/itunes2html.txt It's a one-day script sorta thing, so I'm sure there are some idiocies or places where I can improve on the code. If you have any thoughts, lemme know. -- Morbus Iff ( shower your women, i'm coming ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Tech: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 - articles and weblog icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
