[the] Code Girl

I want to write an app that will let me catalog all my cds, MP3s, DVDs, and books. It will support the CueCat scanner to make for easy entry of items (I won’t assume that all people have their CueCat hacked, as I do). It will be in perl of course because I just can’t seem to get anything written in Java in a timely manner as it is such a PITA about everything. I found a few abandoned projects on SourceForge that either never got past the planning stage, or never got much useful code written.

It started out as just something to catalog MP3s. It would read the ID3 tags (if there were any) and use that data to populate the db entry or supplement data found on FreeDB.org. A perl/tk app was going to run on any desktop/laptop with MP3s but no
internet access, which would grab as much data as possible about the mp3s and dump the output to a flatfile. A second perl/tk app would send that output file to a cgi/webapp that would get the data into the db after looking up whatever it needed on FreeDB.

It will be stored in a mysql db and have a web interface for searching and adding new data.

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