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<code>mp_suggest</code> is a simple little organizational tool for MP3
<code>mp\_suggest</code> is a simple little organizational tool for MP3
collections. I wrote it a few years ago to help me organize my own
collection, and when the Hy Programming Language came out, I decided it
was time for a minor exercise. Rewriting mp\_suggest in Hy was a
perfect opportunity.
was time for a minor exercise. Rewriting <code>mp\_suggest</code> in Hy
was a perfect opportunity.
<code>mp\_suggest</code> does *not* alter your MP3 files; instead, it
prints to stdout a simple Bash script that invokes the command-line
program id3v2; you can capture that script and run it by hand, or pipe
the output of <code>mp\_suggest</code> through <code>sed</code> to make
changes on the fly, or just run the output straight into Bash with a
unix pipe.
prints to stdout a simple <code>bash</code> script that invokes the
command-line program id3v2; you can capture that script and run it by
hand, or pipe the output of <code>mp\_suggest</code> through
<code>sed</code> to make changes on the fly, or just run the output
straight into <code>bash</code> with a unix pipe.
Writing mp_suggest was an interesting exercise in returning to Lisp
after all these years. I find that I really enjoyed it (although,
honestly, Hy's debugging facilities leave a lot to be desired). The
style used inside mp_suggest is most definitely not Lispy; looking
through it, with its persistent use of cheap anonymous functions and
closures and its function-level metaprogramming, I guess the best
language I could compare it to is Coffeescript. I like Coffeescript a
lot, but I don't get many opportunities to use it professionally, but
the sensibilities of Coffeescript (especially Reginald Braithwaite's
Ristrettology and his other books on functional programming) heavily
influenced the design decisions I made in mp_suggest.
Writing <code>mp\_suggest</code> was an interesting exercise in
returning to Lisp after all these years. I find that I really enjoyed
it (although, honestly, Hy's debugging facilities leave a lot to be
desired). The style used inside <code>mp\_suggest</code> is most
definitely not Lispy; looking through it, with its persistent use of
cheap anonymous functions and closures and its function-level
metaprogramming, I guess the best language I could compare it to is
Coffeescript. I like Coffeescript a lot, but I don't get many
opportunities to use it professionally, but the sensibilities of
Coffeescript (especially Reginald Braithwaite's Ristrettology and his
other books on functional programming) heavily influenced the design
decisions I made in <code>mp_suggest</code>.
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