musicgrep

musicgrep is a small but effective package for programmers. It actually provides you with a collection of Ruby files for searching your music collection for a certain string. You can search the text of the song or just the artists or title.

You can pass files to search; if this is omitted the script will use the ~/Music directory and it also recurs into any directories passed in. A little cache of lyrics is created in ~/.musicgrep so that the scripts don't have to repeatedly look up lyrics.

Some functions with usage examples:

• Search all songs in ~/Music for songs with lyric change - musicgrep "change"
• Search all songs in ~/Music with artists containing the string Belle - musicgrep -a "Belle"
• Search all songs in ~/Music with titles containing the string Cat - musicgrep -t "Cat"
• Clear the cache in ~/.musicgrep - musicgrep -c
• Print help - musicgrep -h
• Operate verbosely. - musicgrep -v
  

Requirements:

• Ruby