how I use mp3check

[Jeff Bowden]

I discovered that sometimes my cdrom drive gets confused and all my rips are all zeros.  When this happens the average bitrate of my encodes falls to the minimum bitrate.  To detect this problem I wrote a script that uses checkmp3:

#! /usr/bin/python

import os, sys, traceback

def get_checkmp3_info(path):
    f = os.popen("checkmp3 %s" % path)
    ret = {}
    while True:
        s = f.readline()
        if len(s) == 0:
            break
        dat = s.strip().split()
        if len(dat):
            ret[dat[0]] = dat[1]
    return ret

def check_dir_for_nulls(path, check_all):
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
        for name in files:
            try:
                if name.endswith('.mp3'):
                    mp3info = get_checkmp3_info(os.path.join(root, name))
                    vbravg = int(mp3info.get('VBR_AVERAGE', 0))
                    if vbravg < 33:
                        print name, vbravg
                        if not check_all:
                            break
            except:
                print >>sys.stderr,"error processing %s" % os.path.join(root,name)
                traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stderr)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    check_all = True
    check_dir_for_nulls(sys.argv[1], check_all)

[Jeff Bowden]

Damn.  Well, you can probably imagine how that would look if it was properly indented :-).  SF forums apparently suck fo r posting code.