Renaminator

Renaminator

Reason

The Renaminator is a program that is being made to help add some order to the smashing pumpkins community. Most people in the hub (cid included) are for the uniform renaming of the material as it will help keep sources straight.

Usage

The Renaminator will use calculate the md5 sum of all files in a directory (recursevly) and compare the calculated sum to a berkeley db file. For this reason the Renaminator will be very useful to other communities wishing to do the same thing.

When scanning if the program finds a shn or flac (I may add ape too) file that is not in the database, it then creates a submission form. Since the files will likely be named Track01.shn or Track01.flac, the program will make a note of the directory the said files were found in. It will then prompt the user to enter information about the files (source, venue, date, etc) to be sent into the SPLRA team that is responsible for maintaining the database for the renaminator.

Specifications

The new version of the Renaminator will again be in perl (though no aditional software will be needed for windows users to run it as I have finally gotten perl scripts to compile). The program will be getting a frontend made by Dan which will hopefully be ready as soon as the program is done, if not the usage is not hard at all.

At the current time it is renaminator.exe c:\scan_directory

Yes that is right, perl used to be needed to run the program, but not any more and i have finally gotten the script to compile. There are no dependencies for the renaminator at all, just the exe file and the database file.

The database setup will be as follows: TTH->filename. Simple enough and it will give much better results than a flat file ever would.

Future

Now that a stable version is finalized, I would like to make the Renaminator maintain a etree like list that will be on splra. This will be nice for the end user as it will automatically know the source and all of the details. Right now I think this will happen by creating a berkeley db file that has all of the files that a person has listed in it. The server will then parse this bdb file for you and then show what you have.

Well that is all for now, more to come later when I am not so busy

-Syco54645