rename-audio-files.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# rename-audio-files.sh -- prints a shell script to rename .m4a, .mp3 files according to its tags
#
# Why/where would anyone use this:
# My car's USB audio (iDrive) works much better if the files are named with their metadata than the terse names (track-title) given by iTunes.
#
# Author: Jaeho Shin <[email protected]>
# Created: 2019-03-10
set -euo pipefail

{
type ffprobe
type jq
} >/dev/null

[[ $# -gt 0 ]] || set -- *

RENAME() { local "$@"; [[ "$FROM" -ef "$TO" ]] || mv -vf "$FROM" "$TO"; }
declare -p -f RENAME

find "$@" \( -name "*.m4a" -o -name "*.mp3" \) -print0 |
xargs -0 -L1 ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -i |
# jq -c . | head | jq; exit #|  # for debugging/quickiterations
jq '
    .format |
    (".\(.filename | sub(".*\\."; ""))") as $fileext |
    (.tags |
        [ .album // empty
        , ([( (.disc | sub("/.*"; "")?)
            , (.track | sub("/.*"; "")? | if tonumber < 10 then "0\(.)" else . end)
            )] | join("."))
        , .title
        , .artist // empty
        ] | map(( gsub("[/]"; "-")
               | sub("^[[:space:]]+"; "")
               | sub("[[:space:]]+$"; "")
           )?) | join("—") + $fileext
    ) as $normalized_name |
    select(.filename != $normalized_name) |
    @sh "RENAME TO=\($normalized_name)\tFROM=\(.filename)"
' -cr