Hi,
I’ve found you also need to take care of multiple disk CD releases. These have
a format of
“1-01 Track Name”
“2-02 Trackl Name"
Meaning Disk 1 Track1, Disk 2, Track 2.
Also A and B Sides (from Vinyl LPs)
“A1-Track Name”
“B2-Track Name”
Side A, Track 1, etc.
Cheers
Dave
> On 8 Jun 2022, at 19:36, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 01:53:26 +0000 (UTC), Avi Gross <avigr...@verizon.net>
> declaimed the following:
>
>
>>
>> So is it necessary to insist on an exact pattern of two digits followed by a
>> space?
>>
>>
>> That would fail on "44 Minutes", "40 Oz. Dream", "50 Mission Cap", "50 Ways
>> to Say Goodbye", "99 Ways to Die"
>>
>> It looks to me like you need to compare TWICE just in case. If it matches in
>> the original (perhaps with some normalization of case and whitespace, fine.
>> If not will they match if one or both have something to remove as a prefix
>> such as "02 ". And if you are comparing items where the same song is in two
>> different numeric sequences on different disks, ...
>
> I suspect the OP really needs to extract the /track number/ from the
> ID3 information, and (converting to a 2digit formatted string) see if the
> file name begins with that track number... The format of the those
> filenames appear to be those generated by some software when ripping CDs to
> MP3s -- for example:
>
> -=-=-
> c:\Music\Roger Miller\All Time Greatest Hits>dir
> Volume in drive C is OS
> Volume Serial Number is 4ACC-3CB4
>
> Directory of c:\Music\Roger Miller\All Time Greatest Hits
>
> 04/11/2022 05:06 PM <DIR> .
> 04/11/2022 05:06 PM <DIR> ..
> 07/26/2018 11:20 AM 4,493,279 01 Dang Me.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:20 AM 5,072,414 02 Chug-A-Lug.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:20 AM 4,275,844 03 Do-Wacka-Do.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:20 AM 4,284,208 04 In the Summertime.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:20 AM 6,028,730 05 King of the Road.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:20 AM 4,662,182 06 You Can't Roller Skate in a
> Buffalo Herd.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:20 AM 5,624,704 07 Engine, Engine #9.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:20 AM 5,002,492 08 One Dyin' and a Buryin'.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:21 AM 6,799,224 09 Last Word in Lonesome Is Me.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:21 AM 5,637,230 10 Kansas City Star.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:21 AM 4,656,910 11 England Swings.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:21 AM 5,836,638 12 Husbands and Wives.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:21 AM 5,470,216 13 I've Been a Long Time Leavin'.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:21 AM 6,230,236 14 Walkin' in the Sunshine.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:21 AM 6,416,060 15 Little Green Apples.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:21 AM 9,794,442 16 Me and Bobby McGee.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:22 AM 7,330,642 17 Where Have All the Average People
> Gone.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:22 AM 7,334,752 18 South.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:22 AM 6,981,924 19 Tomorrow Night in Baltimore.mp3
> 07/26/2018 11:22 AM 9,353,872 20 River in the Rain.mp3
> 20 File(s) 121,285,999 bytes
> 2 Dir(s) 295,427,198,976 bytes free
>
> c:\Music\Roger Miller\All Time Greatest Hits>
> -=-=-
>
> Untested (especially the ID3 "variable" -- substitute variables as
> needed to match the original code):
>
>>>> id3Track = 2
>>>> track_number = "%2.2d " % id3Track
>>>> track_number
> '02 '
>>>> filename = "02 This is the life.mp3"
>>>> if filename.startswith(track_number):
> ... nametitle = filename[3:]
> ... else:
> ... nametitle = filename
> ...
>>>> if nametitle.endswith(".mp3"):
> ... nametitle = nametitle[:-4]
> ...
>>>> nametitle
> 'This is the life'
>
> Handling ASCII ' and " vs Unicode "smart" quotes is a different matter.
>
> One may still run the risk of having a filename without a track number
> BUT having a number that just manages to match the track number. To account
> for that I'd suggest using the sequence:
>
> * Strip extension (if filename.lower().endswith(".mp3"): ...)
> * Handle any Unicode/ASCII quotes in both filename AND ID3 track title
> * Compare filename and title.
> * IF MATCHED -- done
> * IF NOT MATCHED
> * Format ID3 track number as shown above
> * Compare filename to (formatted track number + track
> title)
> * IF MATCHED -- done
> * IF NOT MATCHED
> * Log full filename and ID3 track
> title/track number to a
> log for later examination.
>
>
>
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