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basically, i need to make the ID3 tags of all my mp3s mirror the perfectly-typed song information in my itunes XML database. this is so that everything displays grand in foobar. i've tried doing the "Convert ID3 tags" thing.. Tried it on a single album that was working up in foobar. It worked perfectly. Then left itunes on all day, doing the same to the rest of my music, and it's fucked an awful lot of it up (seems to have just erased their ID3 tags altogether). Any ideas on how I could overcome this? Is there a program out there that'll parse an itunes xml library and write the ID3 tags to the mp3s? |
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help |
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well...I always use for everything...and it has many convertion-methods...dunno if it helps on your problem tho' |
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another good hint is: keep the hell away from itunes |
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i've learned my lesson, yes.. it's fast becoming a messy divorce, however. i did find , though, a little perl script to do just the job, so once i get perl running properly with all the required modules on my server, we should be away in a hack. thanks |
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thanks! i used that one before, but unfortunately the winamp library just wasn't fast enough for my liking. i'll be using foobar from here on in. unfortunately there isn't a similar plugin for foobar :/ |
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if iTunes was a playlist instead of a library, the world would be a better place |
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yes agreed, i stored all my music on an external hd so that i could save space on my laptop and i'm trying to play them with itunes and it's just retarded, it's copying them all over to my god damn laptop harddrive i am so annoyed |
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tag&rename, end. |
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i fucking hate perl modules. :< |
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go into tools > advanced and uncheck the box saying to copy music to your itunes folder and you're all good. |
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erg.... preferences > advanced |
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why do you want a perfectly-typed song information itunes XML database? why not just play fucking music? |
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urgh. the problem is that the xml database is perfect. however itunes never saved this information to the ID3 tags of the mp3s, it only saved it to the xml database. therefore i need to get this perl program working. the perl script goes through the xml database, looking at all the data and saving it to the individual mp3s as id3 tags. then i can use foobar2000 properly (since at the moment, half of the mp3s are without id3 tags completely). the problem i'm having is with installing XML::LibXML::Common and XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT. Got it? |
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and any help from perl/cpan gurus would help a lot. i've installed libxml2 and libxml2-dev, have all the libraries and header files, indeed i have xml2-config as well (in /usr/bin) and yet the fucker still throws this at me: /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PH/PHISH/XML-LibXML-Common Checksum for -0.13.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/ XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/ppport.h XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/test.pl XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/Common.pm XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/Changes XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/MANIFEST XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/typemap XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/Common.xs XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/LICENSE XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/Makefile.PL XML-LibXML-Common-0.13/README Removing previously used /root/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-Common-0.13 CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PH/PHISH/XML-LibXML-Common-0.13.tar.gz enable native perl UTF8 running xml2-config... failed using fallback values for LIBS and INC options: LIBS='-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -lxml2 -lz -lm' INC='-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include' If this is wrong, Re-run as: $ /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL LIBS='-L/path/to/lib' INC='-I/path/to/include' looking for -lxml2... no looking for -llibxml2... no libxml2 not found Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line Or get libxml2 from http://www.libxml.org/ If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are. Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site] Running make test Make had some problems, won't test Running make install Make had some problems, won't install Failed during this command: PHISH/XML-LibXML-Common-0.13.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status 512 |
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you have to use the itunes skin, i don't know the exact name, for foobar |
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will that magically restore the ID3 tags to my mp3s that itunes failed to save? |
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hah thanks i realized pretty much right after i posted |
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im sorry im enlightning you a bit too late: itunes is the devil |
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Where can I get it? |
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Is it looking in the wrong place for perl? It thinks it is in /usr/bin/perl so check that it is there. Use RPMs or APTs, keep it as automatic as possible. See if it is on your distro cd (if you have one) and try to get it from that. I would also suggest reading the readme and googling your answer, I know I'm not a 1337 unix hacker and I doubt anyone else on here is either. |
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yeah it had perl in the right place.. i was using apt all along too. it was pretty weird. i finally prevailed however! got it set up on my friend's computer, got a list compiled of id3v2 tagging commands to run, executed them with `cat file.txt` and then had a heap more problems with itunes writting stuff like [ as %5B and bollocks like that. a bit of sed sorted that. i don't know why i said all that... but basically probably because i'm very happy to have gotten all this sorted. goodbye itunes, you prick. |
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i think the first google link will do it it links to you might need microsoft's installed for this i have never tried this skin and now use just plain foobar |
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