aRanger a Perl MP3 organizer
      
      Here you can find some info on aranger a perl
      script which organizes your mp3 files for you.
      
      
DESCRIPTION
	aranger.pl aims at organizing mp3 files automatically for you. It is a 
	complete rewrite of a script called smartid3. 
	The idea
	is that you should be able to run the script on a large amount of files
	to get them organized in a consistent manner according to your desires.
	
      
	It works by giving the file name of the mp3 to a number of methods which
	each has it's own special way of guessing the song, album, artist title
	and track number. Each method has a vote_value which is a notation on
	how reliable the method is.
      
      
	Before all methods vote, there is a preprocessing phase done on the
	files, which looks at all the files given and tries to figure out
	possible albums and artists. The idea is that albums and artists, shows
	up in several file names.
      
      
	After all methods have voted there are some postprocessing done on the
	votes such as checking for strange values such as for instance 'http' in
	either entry, which would lead to a reduction of that entry's score, the
	entries are also checked to see it the artist is the same as the album
	and so on.
      
      
	
Features
	  
	  Renaming of mp3 files based on heuristics for title, artist, etc..
	    Viewing of the ID3 tags for mp3 files.
	      Writing of ID3 tags for mp3 files.
		Removal of ID3 tags for mp3 files.
		  Explicit setting of title, artist, etc.
		    Logging of file operations
		      Reverting of operations using log file.
			Batch mode (default).
			  User preferences file (.aranger.rc).
      
      
	
Installation
				
	Download (and unzip if needed).
      
      
	At current time you must run the scrip from the directory it is unpacked since installation
	is not done according to perl standard yet. 
      
      
	
Download
	  
	  
aranger download
	    
Download sample RC file (place it in $HOME/.aranger.rc)
	      
	      
Documentation
		
		
aranger POD entry (Documentation/Man/Examples...)
		  
		  
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