A talk about how mp3 tagging sucks, and Regtag, which aims to solve it:
https://github.com/xsawyerx/regtag
This talk was originally given at YAPC::EU 2013 (in Kiev) and then at Cluj.pm, on November 7th, 2013.
5. Problems
Not GNU/Linux || Mac || Windows || Solaris
Selectively editing a single file each time
Requiring GUI
Not descriptive enough
Not generic enough
Not powerful enough
(honorable mention: l t g
la)
6. SHIT IS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT
MP3 TAGGING IS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT
7. What do you do?
Rip yourself?
Download quality releases?
Nothing is really what you want
8. Thinking like a programmer
Tags are metadata
Filenames are strings
... in patterns!
11. Features
Supports all mp3 v1, most of v2
Full regexes (including /x)
Static variables (- d f n a t s = D a K n e y "
-eie rit"ed ends)
Already exists ( github.com/xsawyerx/regtag )
12. Future features
Releasing to CPAN
Built-in patterns
Saving/retrieving patterns
Transformation callbacks (- ' _ a t s } > c )
t ${rit-l'
(using E a : C o u eand A T L A )
vl:lsr
UOOD