Add a music file to your music library, with the format {artist}/{album}/{track} {title}.{ext}. Automatically removes illegal filename characters.

move_to_music

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Ubuntu: apt-get install libtagc0-dev
# gem install taglib-ruby

require 'taglib'
require 'fileutils'

#------------------------------------------------
# Configuration
#------------------------------------------------

MUSIC_DIR = File.join(ENV['HOME'], 'Music')
ILLEGAL_CHARS = '\\/:*?"<>|' # Linux actually only disallows NUL and /, this is the Windows list
REPLACEMENT_CHAR = '_'

#------------------------------------------------
# End Configuration
#------------------------------------------------


if ARGV.length == 0
  STDERR.puts "No filenames specified."
  exit 1
end

def sanitize(input)
  input.tr ILLEGAL_CHARS, REPLACEMENT_CHAR
end

ARGV.each do |filename|
  TagLib::FileRef.open(filename) do |fileref|
    if fileref.null?
      STDERR.puts "Skipping #{filename} due to error."
      next
    end

    puts "Adding #{filename}"

    tag = fileref.tag

    new_dir = File.join(MUSIC_DIR, sanitize(tag.artist), sanitize(tag.album))
    new_filename = ('%02d' % tag.track) + ' ' + sanitize(tag.title) + File.extname(filename)

    FileUtils.mkdir_p(new_dir) unless Dir.exists?(new_dir)
    FileUtils.mv filename, File.join(new_dir, new_filename)
  end
end