1 MP3LINT 2 ------- 3 4mp3lint is a tool to check collections of audio files for various 5problems. It is highly configurable, allowing you to specify your 6preferred format for filenames, minimum bitrate, tests to ignore, 7etc. Formats checked are currently mp3, ogg, wav, flac, au, and m3u 8playlists. mp3lint is implemented as separate tools (perl modules), 9each of which implements a set of tests. There are a total of 33 10different tests. 11 12DOWNLOADING 13 14The latest version is at http://nessie.mcc.ac.uk/~ianb/projects/mp3lint/ 15 16You will first need to install libmp3-archive-perl, available from the 17same place, which provides the perl module MP3::Archive. 18 19After installing, see the mp3lint(1) manpage for details of other 20software mp3lint can use to extend its abilities. 21 22INSTALLING 23 24To install, you use the standard perl installation method of: 25 26$ tar xzvvf mp3lint-VERSION.tar.gz 27$ cd mp3lint-VERSION 28$ perl Makefile.PL 29$ make 30 31then, as root: 32 33# make install 34 35VERSION is the current version, eg 0.9 36 37PORTABILITY 38 39mp3lint should run on any modern unix system. I haven't yet tried it 40under windows. If anyone tries, I would appreciate feedback. 41 42I've tried to avoid the latest features of perl, but you may run into 43problems if you have an old version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker (perl's 44installer). Version 6.16 definately works. See mp3lint(1) for more 45details of software and versions needed. 46 47TODO 48 49Windows support 50A configurator, to make configuring .mp3lintrc easier. 51A gui (if I'm feeling ambitious) to help fix problems found by mp3lint. 52 53FEEDBACK 54 55Bug reports, fixes, compliments or (constructive) criticisms would be 56appreciated, to ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk. 57 58COPYRIGHT 59 60Copyright 2003 Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> 61 62This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 63it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 64the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at 65your option) any later version. 66 67This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 68WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 69MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 70General Public License for more details. 71 72You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 73along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 74Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 75 76 77 78