[plug] Using ogg meta-data in bash commands

[Gregory Orange]

On 17 March 2010 11:43, Jason Posavec <jasonposavec at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I have all my music in one directory (artist-title.ogg) so that my home
> media player can just randomly play any song in that directory all day.
> I want to copy all songs from a particular album (listed on the ogg
> meta-data) into a separate folder.
>
> Does anybody know how I'd do this with a bash command that can read ogg
> meta-data?

Hi Jason,
A quick search gave me
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_vorbiscomment.htm
so perhaps that's a useful command line ogg meta-data reader. As for
bash'ing it together, I guess a dumb for loop, so something in the
realm of:

for i in /home/jason/music/*; do
  vorbiscomment -l $i | grep "album: My Favourite Album"
  if ( $? == 0 ) then
     cp $i /home/jason/favouriteAlbumFolder/
  fi
done

HTH,
Greg.

-- 
Gregory Orange