{"id":66844,"date":"2022-08-30T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=66844"},"modified":"2022-08-30T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T09:00:49","slug":"clean-up-music-tags-with-a-groovy-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=66844","title":{"rendered":"Clean up music tags with a Groovy script"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clean up music tags with a Groovy script<\/span>
\nChris Hermansen<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 08\/30\/2022 – 03:00<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
1 reader likes this<\/div>\n
1 reader likes this<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

Lately, I’ve been looking at how Groovy streamlines Java. In this series, I’m developing several scripts to help in cleaning up my music collection. In my last article, I used the framework developed previously to create a list of unique file names and counts of occurrences of those file names in the music collection directory. I then used the Linux find<\/code> command to get rid of files I didn’t want.<\/p>\n

In this article, I demonstrate a Groovy script to clean up the motley assembly of tag fields.<\/p>\n

WARNING: This script alters music tags, so it is vital that you make a backup of the music collection you test your code on.<\/p>\n

Back to the problem<\/h2>\n

If you haven’t read the previous articles is this series, do that now before continuing so you understand the intended structure of the music directory, the framework I’ve created, and how to detect and use FLAC, MP3, and OGG files.<\/p>\n