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dagger is a small command-line utility for unix/linux written in Python which tags and renames audio-files

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size: 12K
Developer: Stephan Windm?ller
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dagger is a small command-line utility for unix/linux written in Python which tags and renames audio-files. Currently supported formats by dagger are MP3 and OGG Vorbis. dagger's configuration file supports different profiles with their own sets of options.

Usage:

The following overview is produced when you run dagger without options. If you want further explanation, please refer to the README.

dagger 0.2
Copyright (c) 2006 Stephan Windm?ller

Syntax: dagger [options] [actions] file(s)
Example: dagger -v -r "%b/%n - %a - %t.ogg" *.ogg

General actions:
-h, --help Show this help
-r, --rename="format" Renames the given file(s) to format
-t, --tag="format" Parses the filename and saves the tag
--regexp="s/str1/str2/" Perform regexp replace

Actions which set static tags:
--set-artist="name" Sets the artist tag in all files
--set-album="name" Sets the album tag in all files
--set-comment="name" Sets the comment tag in all files
--set-genre="genre" Sets the genre tag in all files
--set-tracktotal="num" Sets the total number of tracks
--set-auto-tracknum Sets the track number automatically
--set-title="title" Sets the title tag in all files
--set-date="year" Sets the date tag in all files

Options:
--create-dirs Create needed directories while renaming
-d, --dry-run Do not change files, only show what would
happen
--force Allow overwriting of existing files
--no-id3v1 Do not save id3v1 tags
--no-id3v2 Do not save id3v2 tags
--no-suffix Do not add suffix to format string if
missing
--normalize Normalize title
--profile="profile" Use profile in ~/.daggerrc
-q, --quiet Do not produce any output
-v, --verbose Be verbose

Format may have the following fields:

%a: ARTIST %l: TRACKTOTAL
%b: ALBUM %n: TRACKNUMBER
%c: COMMENT %t: TITLE
%g: GENRE %y: DATE
%x: ignore this

What's New in This Release:
This release adds support for regular expressions and fixes some minor bugs.

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