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mp_suggest.hy | ||
mp_suggest_man.tex |
README.md
mp_suggest
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.
mp_suggest
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 mp_suggest
through
sed
to make changes on the fly, or just run the output
straight into bash
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
.
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Licensing
This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).
You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.
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Using:
mp_suggest comes with a complete list of commands that can be seen by running the command with no arguments. See the man page that comes with it.
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To do:
The TODO file is empty for a reason. This was mostly an exercise in writing Hy.