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[roadrunnertwice]

Well, without the module working against me at every turn, that was actually incredibly easy.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'id3lib'

ARGV.each {|file|
song = ID3Lib::Tag.new(file)
song.remove_frame(:____) # <== This is actually a bug, or at least a really questionable feature, but it's totally working in my favor this time.
song.remove_frame(:TALB)
song.set_frame_text(:COMM, song.frame_text(:TIT3))
song.remove_frame(:TIT3)
song.update!
}

I don't have a good way to replace the album frame; it requires either a human reader or a smarter parser than I can write. So I just copy the description to the comments frame, where I can read it from within iTunes, and type in the album myself when and if the spirit moves me.

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[boopsce.livejournal.com]

Writing code that relies on a bug or at least a really questionable feature: smooth! ;)

[roadrunnertwice]

I was proud of it! For some reason, the Ruby wrapper for ID3lib (and maybe ID3lib itself...?) doesn't play ball with all those weird-ass frames like WFED, and presents them all as empty frames with and id: of '____'. So instead of having to separately remove the WFED and TGID frames and maybe spend another five lines taking out the rest of those garbage private frames, I ended up with the single line you saw above.

Sure would suck if I was trying to make a song a podcast instead of vice-versa, though.