ID: utils/README Tue Sep 29 21:40:24 EDT 2009 ground/X

The MP3 Database Project II
extra support utilities

This directory contains some utility scripts that I wrote to help me 
manage my  MP3 collection.  They don't directly have anything to do with 
maintaining the MP3 database so they have been moved to a different 
directory.  These scripts are stand alone and do not require any of the 
other code from mp3db2.  They are only distributed with this archive 
because they are MP3 related or help me maintain my MP3 collection.

The following programs are included in this directory:

genrmd5: This program wil recurse through directories generating a
checksum.md5 file with MD5 information in each of them.  Empty directories 
or directories containing only directories will not contain a checksum.md5
file. These files can then be verified with the included vercd program.

makewav: Convert MP3s to WAVs using the mpg123 player.  Nice for burning 
audio cds

renlower: Rename all files in a directory removing special characters and 
converting upper case to lower case.

riffstrip: Remove RIFF WAV headers from MP3 files.  This has been tested 
with MP3s made by FHG MP3 producer professional, but since a RIFF header 
is standard it should work with headers generated by other applications.

rt.rec: Record audio from a sound card in real time to compressed formats.  
I use this script to record radio broadcasts and audiobooks from tape.  
Execute the script with the --help option and see the comments at the top 
of the script for more information.

vercd: Recurse through a directory and all its sub directories verifying 
checksum.md5 files.  If you use md5sum to generate checksum.md5 files on 
your MP3 cDs this script will verify that the CD is error free.

rr: Scripts for scheduling live recordings using the included rt.rec 
script.  Look at the README file in the utils/rr subdirectory for more 
information.