iMp3 is an application for batch processing and fixing common issues when dealing with a large iTunes library

Due an Snow Leopard bug, this application will fail to process more than 65536 (2^16) song at once. In order to avoid this limitation, you can select the desired tracks to process in iTunes and then call iMp3 with –selection switch

• Mac OS X

• iTunes

sudo gem install imp3

NAME:

  imp3

DESCRIPTION:

  Application for batch processing and fixing common issues when dealing with a large iTunes library

COMMANDS:

  artists misspelled   Fix misspelled artist names
  genres fetch         Fetch last.fm artist top tags and tag track genre
  genres fetch-cache   Lists genres present on the cache and not in the ignore list
  genres ignore-add    Add specified genre to ignore list so is no longer used for tagging tracks
  genres ignore-del    Remove specified genre from ignore list
  genres ignore-list   Lists all ignored genres
  genres list          Lists all genres tagged in iTunes
  help                 Display global or [command] help documentation.

GLOBAL OPTIONS:

  -s, --selection
      Apply only to current iTunes selection

  -h, --help
      Display help documentation

  -v, --version
      Display version information

  -t, --trace
      Display backtrace when an error occurs

AUTHORS:

  Víctor Martínez

$ imp3 genres fetch
53% |=============............| Tagging track 911DA9F96A9D7003 with genre 'sludge'

$ imp3 artists misspelled
Misspelled artist name scan complete.

What is the correct artist name for L'Antietam
1. L'Antietam
2. L'antietam
3. (Skip)
?  1
Tagging track 851744AFF27C75D1 with artist name 'L'Antietam'

177 artists.
1479 tracks.
1 tracks tagged.
0 requests.
0 errors.

$ imp3 genres ignore-add singer-songwriter
Genre 'singer-songwriter' added to ignore list

$ imp3 genres ignore-list
+-------------------+
| Genre             |
+-------------------+
| singer-songwriter |
| polish            |
| swedish           |
+-------------------+

$ imp3 genres list
+-------------------+--------+
| Genre             | Tracks |
+-------------------+--------+
| screamo           | 398    |
| post-rock         | 252    |
| hardcore          | 116    |
| post-hardcore     | 81     |
| sludge            | 72     |
| indie             | 67     |
| rock              | 58     |
| math-rock         | 44     |
| thrashcore        | 38     |
| emo               | 36     |
| electronic        | 33     |
| crust             | 32     |
| mathcore          | 29     |
| post-metal        | 26     |
| metalcore         | 23     |
| punk              | 21     |
| grindcore         | 21     |
| crustcore         | 15     |
| ska               | 11     |
| indie-rock        | 11     |
| deathcore         | 10     |
| black-metal       | 9      |
| experimental      | 8      |
| ambient           | 7      |
| emo-violence      | 6      |
| death-metal       | 5      |
| pop-punk          | 5      |
| swedish           | 3      |
| psychedelic       | 3      |
| pop               | 2      |
| polish            | 2      |
| punk-rock         | 1      |
| acoustic          | 1      |
| post-punk         | 1      |
+-------------------+--------+

• Issue solver: Misspelled album names

• Issue solver: Lower-cased track names

• Issue solver: Same artist, different genre

• Issue solver: Fetch missing album art using images.google.com

• Issue solver: Duplicate tracks

• Issue solver: Remove sort artist (I personally hate this feature)

• Switch to skip/force already processed tracks

• Windows support through Win32OLE

• (your feature request here)

• …

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright © 2010 Víctor Martínez. See LICENSE for details.