I purchased recently a couple of MP3 CD-s,
and some of them did not contain the ID3 tag tracknum,
and obviously some software depends on that tag for presenting the pieces in the right order
.
I started writing a utility in perl,
but the library I made use of was hopelessly outdated
and only dealt with IDv1.
My current approach is a utility in ruby
making use of the ruby gem mp3info,
that this article is linked to.
In the middle of this tiny project
I came to a few important conclusions.
This is the most important one:
My MP3 files are named just after their track numbers.
That makes life incredibly easy,
if it comes to weird characters of whatever origin.
How did I copy the MP3 files from the CD-ROM to my hard disk?
Coyping under Linux did not work out,
as some files on the CD-ROM just did not get listed,
presumably because of their weird names.
Copying let’s say 100 or 200 files from a Windows computer over the network to a Samba server
always stalls and breaks somewhere in the middle.
So I decided to always start copying under Linux,
find out the gaps using a script,
and then copy the missing files using the Windows computer.