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README.txt

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+DESCRIPTION:
+If you ever tried to copy songs from your iPhone directly onto your filesystem (not using iTunes) then you know you will find all your songs renamed in a very weird "Apple" way.. This is regardless of what the filenames were when you were intially copying these onto your iphone as it will later on overwrite their file names.
+
+This however is only for the actual file name. Meaning if your media had it's track title, performer or album in the metadata then this will still be there.
+
+Using the help of the mediainfo utility you can pull metadata information from various media formats. Based on what is availbale in the metadata you can then rename your iphone songs with something that is actually human readable. This script attempts to automate this process.
+
+NOTE:
+1) This script works around the mediainfo package. It is a simple utility to get metadata info from various media types
+2) This script relies on metadata in your media in order to rename your files. Depending on how you acquired your media in the first place, some metadata may be missing hence resulting in incomplete output!!
+3) To mount your iphone on a Linux device, you will need libimodiledevice libraries + the ifuse package --> Ref: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS
+
+AUTHOR:
+96-fromsofia - 2A9-7CC@96-fromsofia.net || August 2021

itunes-rename-by-metadata.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# NOTE:
+# 1) This script works around the mediainfo package. It is a simple utility to get metadata info from various media types
+# 2) This script relies on metadata in your media in order to rename your files. Depending on how you acquired your media in the first place, some metadata may be missing hence resulting in incomplete output!!
+# 3) To mount your iphone on a Linux device, you will need libimodiledevice libraries + the ifuse package --> Ref: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS
+
+
+# Set a random session number
+session=$RANDOM
+
+# Specify the particular delimiter for string devision by IFS (Internal Field Separator)
+IFS='
+'
+
+# Specify the path where your iphone is mounted
+mountpoint="/mnt/iphone"
+iphone_music="$mountpoint/Music/F*/*"
+
+# Specify the destination path where you want the new file names copied
+destination="/home/user/Music"
+
+# Create a temp file to store "failed items"
+touch $PWD/failed_list$session.txt
+fail_list=$PWD/failed_list$session.txt
+
+# Loop through all the songs in $iphone_music
+for song in $iphone_music
+do
+        # Use the mediainfo utility to get the song name, it's performer and album
+        song_artist=$(mediainfo $song | grep "Album/Performer" | cut -c 44-)
+        song_name=$(mediainfo $song | grep -m 1 "Track name" | cut -c 44-)
+        song_album=$(mediainfo $song | grep -m 1 "Album" | cut -c 44-)
+
+        # If it doesn't have a song name add to failed list and continue with next song
+        if [ -z "$song_name" ]
+        then
+                echo $song >> $fail_list
+                continue
+        # Alternatively use next elif and else to create the $dest_name based on the metadata that has been found
+        elif [ -n "$song_artist" && -n "$song_album" ]
+        then
+                dest_name=$(printf "$song_name by $song_artist from $song_album")
+        elif [ -n "$song_artist" && -z "$song_album" ]
+        then
+                dest_name=$(printf "$song_name by $song_artist")
+        elif [ -z "$song_artist" && -n "$song_album" ]
+                dest_name=$(printf "$song_name from the album: $song_album")
+        else
+                dest_name=$(printf "$song_name")
+        fi
+
+        # Copy the original file to a new one in the specified $destination with it's new metadata generated name
+        cp $song "$destination/$dest_name"
+done
+
+# Update the user with the failed files
+echo -e "WARNING \!\!\!\nThe following items have no song name in their metadata hence were not renamed and copied over:"
+cat $fail_list
+yes | rm $fail_list
+
+# Confirm the successfully renamed and copied media
+echo "The rest of your files have been saved into $destination"
+ls -l $destination