The scribbu project has a few components. The first is a program that provides assorted sub-commands, a few of which are:
scribbu dump
See Invoking scribbu dump
. will write
the contents of any & all ID3 tags found in one or more files to
stdout.
scribbu report
See Invoking scribbu report
. will generate a report listing ID3 attributes on one or more
files on stdout. CSV, TDF & ASCII-delimited formats are supported
currently.
scribbu rename
See Invoking scribbu rename
. will rename one or more files based on the contents of their
ID3 tags; e.g. scribbu rename -t ``%A-%T.mp3'' *.mp3
will rename
all the files matching “*.mp3” to “<artist>-<title>.mp3” where
"artist" and "title" are derived from their ID3 tags (if any).
scribbu popm
See Invoking scribbu popm
. will
update ID3v2 play count & popularimeter tags. For instance,
scribbu popm foo.mp3
will increment the play counts in
“foo.mp3”.
scribbu text
See Invoking scribbu text
.
maintains assorted ID3v2 text frames; for instance, scribbu
text --artist='Roxy Music' *.mp3
will set the artist frame to “Roxy
Music” in all ID3v2 tags in all files matching “*.mp3”.
Any sub-command can be invoked with --help or -h for more information. Use --info option to display the command’s node in this manual.
The scribbu
program also exports functions & GOOPS
See GOOPS. classes to a Scheme interpreter, so
scribbu
can also be invoked...
#!/usr/local/scribbu \ -e main -s #! (define (main args) ...
Finally, scribbu contains a C++ library (libscribbu
)
See Using libscribbu
. against which one can build C++
libraries & programs.