In the past couple of weeks I have been dabbling with command line to tag and inspect tags of mp3 files. Linux has an abundance of tools to fill this niche and it’s confusing to know what to use. What follows are my conclusions. id3: only handles 1.1 tags. id3v2: does not handle 2.4 tags. [...]
I needed a concise, modern and easy to use tempo names table and couldn’t find a good one on-line (which came as a surprise to me – maybe I’m not adapt at this Google thing…). The article on “Tempo” in Wikipedia has a lot of information but lacks in this regard. So here is a [...]
I sometimes need to find all broken symbolic links in a folder, recursively or not. find(1) is the all UNIX right tool for the job as far as finding files is concerned but it does not have an explicit -and -type brokenlink option… Some solutions involve sending the output of find(1) to some other tool. [...]
It happens often that I forget to change the default character set of a database to utf8 and so find out late in the development cycle that many of my fields are based on non utf8 character sets (mostly latin1). Then I go in and modify each field in turn using ALTER TABLE [table] MODIFY [...]