In most cases you could come up with a set of regexes to govern whitespace, punctuation and abbreviations and change them to commonly accepted forms (but note this gets gnarly).
More difficult are the subtler alterations. MusicBrainz and Discogs both allow the recording of artist aliases, and these often include mis-spellings. By searching for the alias, you can sometimes find the "canonical" artist name. Then you can just use that. 'bliss' (https://www.blisshq.com) - fully automated music library management. 'Read the music library management blog' (https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/) including 'how to use bliss to manage Squeezebox album art' (https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2010/09/14/album-art-squeezebox/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ elstensoftware's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31345 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117185 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
