<sigh> - I finally finished writing a small Perl script which I started on about a year ago and then put to one side. It reads through a directory of MP3s which I’ve hand-ripped from tape, and assigns them ID3 tags based on their filename (artist - album - track - song.mp3) using ID3ren.

I could have saved a lot of time if I’d read the ID3ren documentation in the first place - there is actually a template command which does exactly this. OK, so my Perl script lets me zip through whole directories at a time… but I think I can also do this with ID3ren using wildcards. Ah well, such is progress. It also took me about a hundred times longer to write the script (because of my lack of understanding of getting Perl to interact with external commands) than it would have done to type the tags in by hand for the few tracks that I have ripped in this way, but what the hey.

Probably a far more useful achievement: I ripped my first track off a DVD last night - bloody hard work and not an ideal result, but this site was a lot of help.