KDE3.5 and other stuff

:: How to set id3tag from a text file

I have a number of mp3 files with missing titles, or with titles that are not really informative (first movement, second movement,...). Most of the time it is not difficult to find the titles that can be copied and pasted on the net (obviously I don't want to retype everything, and OCR on CD jackets doesn't work always well). However, how do I copy and paste? Most of tag handling GUI utilities are not so user-friendly when it comes to copy and past hirty titles. For example, I have tracks from the CD Brilliant Bach Edition, Vol. 10, Passions, CD 6, St. Mark's passion, with missing title. I found titles on the net, which look like

1. Chorus - Geh, Jesu, geh zu deiner Pein! (5:20)
2. Recitative - Und nach zween Tagen war Ostern (2:42)
...
23. Chorale - Ich will hier bei dir stehen (4:31)

I simply copied and pasted this to a text file, named it titles.

The next step is removal of unwanted part, namely the number of the track and its length. For this, I did (c.f. my previous post )

awk '{$1 =""; $NF=""; print }' titles | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' > titles.1

So the file titles.1 contains the title of each track in the order.

Now that I had the file with track titles, all I had to do was to launch the following script

j=0
while read line
do
    (( j += 1 ))
l=$(printf "%02d" $j)
eyeD3 -t "$line" ""$l*.mp3""
done < titles.1

provided that files have the track numbers as prefix.