dagger is a small command-line utility for unix/linux written in Python which tags and renames audio-files. Currently supported formats are MP3 and OGG Vorbis. dagger's configuration file supports different profiles with their own sets of options.
Version 0.3.2 corrects the parsing of filenames in subdirectories. It also contains bugfixes for capitalization of words containing parentheses and dashes.
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The current version of dagger is 0.3.2. Changes are listed in the
Changelog. You may download the software
with this link:
dagger-0.3.2.tar.gz (18 KB)
For users of APT-based Linux-distributions such as
Debian or
Ubuntu there is a prepackaged
.deb:
dagger_0.3.2-1_all.deb (14 KB)
The following overview is produced when you run dagger without options. If you want further explanation, please refer to the README.
dagger 0.3.2 Copyright (c) 2008 Stephan Windmüller 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 -m, --missing Checks for missing tag fields --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: --basedir="dir" Move file relative to "dir" while renaming --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 --missing-format="fields" Tags to look at when check for missing ones --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 --recursive Proceed recursive in all subdirectories -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
Did you find a bug? Do you have any suggestions? Then do not hesitate to contact me: dagger(at)freewarepoint.de