{"id":928,"date":"2015-03-20T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T06:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2015-03-21T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T16:15:52","slug":"podcast-tagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/20\/podcast-tagging\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Tagging"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a podcast<\/a> and it’s a chore to update. I’ve built some tools to help me produce an RSS feed for the podcast, which is a good thing, since RSS = XML = too persnickety to do by hand. But I’ve had to do some of the work by hand, specifically, tagging the .MP3 files with the appropriate ID3 tags. I was using iTunes, which has never been very fun, and seems to get worse with each iteration.<\/p>\n

Enter eyeD3<\/a>. It’s a tag editor, but unlike most of them, you can operate it from the command line. Better yet, eyeD3 understands ID3 v. 2.X tags<\/a>. The documentation for the classic eyeD3 interface<\/a> is what I like best. You can use it to set all kinds of tags<\/a> for your podcast. Like these v2.x tags<\/a> here. If you want to set one of the date tags, you’ll need to know how to specify a date in ISO 8601 format<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also, did you know that mp3info<\/a> lets you get the length of an audio file from the command line? I didn’t, until I read it on the internet<\/a>, and durned if it’s not true. That’s pretty nifty. And there’s even a Ruby API<\/a> for it!<\/p>\n

I also learned about something called mutagen<\/a>, which is like eyed3<\/em> but for arbitrary types of audio files.<\/p>\n

I spent the day learning all this, so my tools still need to be updated to do what I now know can be done programmatically. But I’ve done the hardest part, viz.:<\/p>\n

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