less2more is a personal Perl Script that I use to maintain my music collection.

It is nowhere ready for "general release" as it does not contain neither configuration options nor usage documentation. E.g. folder names and file naming conventions are hardcoded.

I have no plans to do a "general release", but provide the source here upon request for the benefit of others with Perl skills.

less2more calls these command line interface programs that must be installed on your system:
- flac.exe
- metaflac.exe
- lame.exe

less2more requires Perl 5.8 which can be obtained here:
Active Perl

After installing Perl use PPM to install the following perl modules:
- File-Find-Rule
- MP3::Tag
- MP3::Info
- tagged

Furthermore do special edit of mp3::id3v2 to disable unsynchronisation if you want less2more to handle pictures.

Current version of less2more is v0.1

Short description of less2more

less2more works on the tags described in appendix A of the specification

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so... wouldn't it be more2less ???

or are you storing in a lossless codec content previously encoded with a lossy codec?

i don't get it...

It's a play on words:

I have called it less2more, since it convert lossLESS to a format with MORE meta information.

lossLESS -> to -> MORE meta data (the cover picture) than what is in FLAC.

Those familiar with Unix will know that less is more, that is the Unix command "less" does more than the Unix command "more" although both programs are inteded for viewing the contents of a text file. (More only allows forward scrolling whereas less allows the user to scroll backwards as well)

Similar to this the sound quality of a lossLESS FLAC file is better than that of a lossy file although it might have MORE meta data.

Anyway its just a stupid name, but I had to call it something.

trust me, i get the unix implications...

but you're coding this with win32 in mind

and i was just thinking out loud, no need to prove anything.


later