🎵 Automatically Fix Song Metadata and Filenames on Linux with Beets Tired of sorting through unknown MP3s with cryptic filenames like Track01.mp3? Sick of missing album info, incorrect genres, and zero cover art? Here's a clean way to batch-fix your music collection with open source tools — no manual editing required. ✅ What You’ll Use beets — the core tool that organizes, renames, and tags your music by matching against the MusicBrainz database. libchromaprint-tools — provides fpcalc, which generates audio fingerprints to identify unlabeled tracks. ffmpeg (optional) — used by beets for transcoding or embedded cover art processing. 🔧 Installation sudo apt update sudo apt install beets libchromaprint-tools ffmpeg 🚀 One Command to Organize It All beet import /path/to/your/music/ Beets will: Fingerprint each file Query MusicBrainz for metadata Rename files (e.g., Artist - Title.mp3) Write correct ID3/metadata tag Optionally move files into organized folders 📁 Example Output Your ...
#!/bin/bash # Check if a directory is provided if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <path-to-directory>" exit 1 fi DIRECTORY="$1" # Check if the provided argument is a directory if [ ! -d "$DIRECTORY" ]; then echo "The specified path is not a directory." exit 1 fi # Process each EPUB file in the directory find "$DIRECTORY" -type f -name "*.epub" | while IFS= read -r EPUB_FILE; do # Extract the base name without the extension BASE_NAME=$(basename "$EPUB_FILE" .epub) TEXT_FILE="$DIRECTORY/${BASE_NAME}.txt" echo "Processing $EPUB_FILE" # Create a temporary directory to extract the EPUB file TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d) echo "Extracting EPUB file to $TEMP_DIR" # Unzip the EPUB file into the temporary directory unzip -q "$EPUB_FILE" -d "$TEMP_DIR" ...