NAME

       alfilldb - Add/update information of music files in the AudioLink database

SYNOPSIS

       alfilldb [OPTION]... /path/to/songs/...

       alfilldb [OPTION]... --file=/path/to/song...

DESCRIPTION

       You can use this script to add or update information about your music files (MP3 or Ogg
       Vorbis) in the AudioLink database. This information will be used when you use the
       alsearch(1) program to search for particular music. This program is part of the
       audiolink(1) package.

       The path given for the location of individual files or directories must be an absolute
       path (paths with ~ are allowed). Relative paths are not allowed. See the "examples"
       section for more information.

       The user and password options have to be specified to gain access to the database. See the
       "more information" section in the audiolink(1) man page for the various ways in which you
       can specify them.

       Options that are used repetitively during different invocations of the program (like the
       user, password options) may be put in the config file. See the audiolink(1) man page for
       details on the config file.

OPTIONS

       --add-only
           Only the information about new songs will be added to the database; information about
           existing songs will not be updated.

       --file=xxx
           Works on just a single file instead of a directory. If this argument is given, the
           /path/to/dirs is not considered.  (You can have more than one of these).

       --help
           Brief usage information

       --host=xxx
           Connects to the MySQL server on the given host. Default is localhost.

       --no-prompt
           Don't prompt for anything. Songs which do not have information for mandatory fields
           (eg., song title) will not be added to the database.

       --pass=xxx
           Password for accessing the database

       --prompt=xxx
           Prompt for input if there isn't enough information in the song (ID3 or Ogg Vorbis
           comments).

           The parameters that prompt accepts are:

           basic
               Prompts just for the album name and the artist/band name

           limited
               Prompts for album, artist/band, genre and year fields

           most
               Prompt for all the fields except the Male, Female Artists and the Track number

           paranoid
               Prompt for all the fields, including Male Artist (1/2), Female Artist (1/2), Track
               Number.

       -s, --na
           Simulate or no-act mode: doesn't update the database.

       --upd-only
           Only entries in the database will be updated from the input the user gives. Make sure
           you don't use the --no-prompt option along with this one... else you won't get
           anything done!

       --upd-song
           Update the tags in the file, ie, ID3 for MP3, comments for Ogg Vorbis.

       --user=xxx
           Username for accessing the database

       --verbose
           Displays some extra information while processing files

EXAMPLES

       "alfilldb --add-only /home/user/tmp/songs/"
           This invocation will scan the /home/user/tmp/songs directory recursively for new songs
           only. Songs already existing in the database will not be considered.

       "alfilldb --upd-only --prompt=most ~/tmp/songs/"
           This invocation will scan the $(HOME)/tmp/songs directory recursively for the current
           user for incomplete information in the database.

       "alfilldb ~user/tmp/songs/"
           This invocation will scan the /home/user/tmp/songs folder for music files; will add
           new entries to the database as well as update the existing ones.

       "alfilldb --file=~/tmp/songs/somefile.ogg --file=~/tmp/songs/otherfile.mp3"
           This invocation will just add (or update) information about the files
           $(HOME)/tmp/songs/somefile.ogg and $(HOME)/tmp/songs/otherfile.mp3.

CAVEATS

       If the --prompt option is not specified, alfilldb will just prompt for the title of the
       song being processed. The title information is asked only if the ID3 tag or the Vorbis
       comment doesn't contain the title. This behavior can be overriden by the --no-prompt
       option, and in this case, the entry for the file will not be made, since the song title is
       a mandatory field for storing song information in the datbase.

       If neither of --add-only or --upd-only are specified, the default action is to add new
       entries as well as update existing ones.

       If the ID3 tags or Vorbis comments for a file were updated after entries were made in the
       AudioLink database, they will not be reflected in the database. If you want to maintain
       consistency, it is advised that you keep the database updated (by using the --upd-only
       option) and then update the ID3 tag in the MP3 or the comment in the Ogg Vorbis file (by
       running alfilldb with the --upd-only option).

SEE ALSO

       L<audiolink(1)>, L<alsearch(1)> The current version of this man page is available on the
       AudioLink website at <http://audiolink.sourceforge.net/>.

BUGS

       Report bugs related to the AudioLink software or the man pages to the audiolink-devel
       mailing list <audiolink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.

AUTHOR

       This manual page is written and maintained by Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net>

COPYRIGHT

       The AudioLink package is Copyright (C) 2003, Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net>. All the
       programs and the documentation that come as part of AudioLink are licensed by the GNU
       General Public License v2 (GPLv2).