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OIDUA(1) General Commands Manual OIDUA(1)

NAME

oidua - audio file metadata lister

SYNOPSIS

oidua [options] directory [...]

DESCRIPTION

lists meta data of audio files. What information and how it is presented is customizable. It is possible to format output in csv, html, xml or for human beings.

OPTIONS

Set HTML background color
Display datestamp header
Output debug trace to stderr
Exclude directory from search
write output to file
Display help message
HTML output
Don't list files that cause Audiotype failure
Case-insensitive directory sorting
Set indent to N
Merge identical directories
Basedirs with identical names are merged. This Means that all their subdirs are considered being subdirs of a single directory, and therefore sorted and displayed together. If there are duplicate names among the subdirs then those are also merged.
Set output format to STRING

Anything enclosed by brackets is considered a field. A field must have the following syntax:

[TAG]
[TAG,WIDTH]
[TAG,WIDTH,SUFFIX]
[TAG,SUFFIX]

TAG is any of the following characters:

list of bitrates in Audiolist compatible format
bitrate with suffix (i.e. 192k)
bitrate in bps
depth; distance from respective basedir
number of audio files (including spacers)
length in minutes and seconds
length in seconds
time of last change
time of last change in seconds since the epoch
directory name (indented)
directory name
profile
full path
quality
size with suffix (i.e. 65.4M)
size in bytes
file type
bitrate type:
~
mixed files
constant bitrate
lossless compression
variable bitrate
defines the exact width of the field. The output is cropped to this width if needed. Negative values will give left aligned output. Cropping is always done on the right.
lets you specify a unit to be concatenated to all non-empty data.
Other interpreted sequences are:
\[
[
\]
]
new line
tab character
Omit progress indication
Strip output of field headers and empty directories
Display statistics results
Display elapsed time footer
Set HTML text color
Display version
Expand wildcards in basedirs

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to Sylvester Johansson <sylvestor@telia.com>

SEE ALSO

http://oidua.suxbad.com/

AUTHOR

oidua was written by Sylvester Johansson and Mattias Paeivaerinta This manual page was written by Erik Wenzel <erik@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

May 15, 2007