mp3tofid - mp3 uploading tool for use with rsync

I have just released a first version of mp3tofid, a utility that, together with rsync, will perform automated and efficient MP3 uploads to your empeg.

Download it and/or read about it here.

Pim

SWEET. Haven't tried it out yet, but it sounds great. I just added it to the riocar.org downloads section. I love the part about how it only performs updates when necessary and can resume syncs later on. That's killer.

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and can resume syncs later on

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Well, you can intterrupt the transfer and resume later, but your player will not play until it's finished ...

Pim

Well, of course, if the FIDs are incomplete on the player, they won't play. It's still better than having 20 GB fail and having to start over!

Neat!

What version of id3lib did you write against? I'm trying to compile against 3.7.13 on Debian, and I'm getting this error:

g++ -c -o scanid3.o scanid3.cpp
scanid3.cpp: In function `char * getid3field(ID3Tag *, ID3_FrameID)':
/usr/include/id3.h:88: too few arguments to function `size_t ID3Field_GetASCII(const ID3Field *, char *, unsigned int, unsigned int)'
scanid3.cpp:16: at this point in file

It's missing the index argument, and I am not sure what goes there.

Looks like a great piece of software though, thanks..

I suppose I'm going to have to implement an rsync server in Hijack now..

someone's gotta integrate this with (j)emplode too (for those of us who dont run linux)!! finally... i've been wating for this for a while. thanks!!!

Yes Yes Yes

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What version of id3lib did you write against?

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3.8.0

There are limits to what emplode and jemplode can do, as they both use the player software on the receiving side.

I'm currently taking a look whether I can port mp3tofid to Windows using cygwin.

Current cygwin seems to be able to support symbolic links. storing them as Windows shortcuts. As the base cygwin distribution include rsync, it too should see these shortcuts as symlinks. And even if this won't work, I could always just copy the MP3's.

Pim

It might work, ISTR that rsync from cygwin to Linux copies .lnk files as symlinks, but with the .lnk extension, which you don't want.

I've just checked -- if you create a symlink with cygwin, rsync under cygwin will transfer it to a Linux box correctly (using --links). I assume that --copy-links will work correctly, too.

Does this mean that theres a chance that windows users will be able to use this with cygwin?

Yes.