Free sort mp3 software for linux

gmp3sort is used to reorder files on usb mp3 sticks with fat16 filesystem.
Some mp3 usb sticks have no support for playlists or shuffle.
Since they use fat16, files are ordered by creation date, which results in no or little control over the playlist.
gmp3sort renames files, moves them to a temporary directory and moves them back, thus creating the desired file order.
Main features:
- glade xml
- double click on textview row
- copynpaste textview rows
- dragndrop textview rows
- textview multiple selection
- textview context menu
- textview selection, iteration
- textview column sort, return to unsorted mode
- dragndrop from nautilus
- GnomeVFS URI parsing
- FileChooserDialogs?
- GtkFilter? for FileChooserDialog?
- Statusbar

Genre-sort is a handy Python script that will move/copy mp3s based on their id3 genre tag.
Main features:
- Written in Python
- Uses the eyeD3 library http://eyed3.nicfit.net/
- Currently only works on mp3 but ogg vorbis and flac support is planned
Examples:
./genre-sort.py /dir/to/files -p
Will run in pretend mode and show you what the script plans to do.
./genre-sort.py /dir/to/files -c
Will make copies of the files in the correct directories and leave the originals behind.
./genre-sort.py /dir/to/files
Default behavior will move files to the correct directories and delete the originals.

File::Sort is a Perl module to sort a file or merge sort multiple files.

SYNOPSIS

use File::Sort qw(sort_file);
sort_file({
I => [qw(file_1 file_2)],
o => file_new, k => 5.3,5.5rn, -t => |
});

sort_file(file1, file1.sorted);

This module sorts text files by lines (or records). Comparisons are based on one or more sort keys extracted from each line of input, and are performed lexicographically. By default, if keys are not given, sort regards each input line as a single field. The sort is a merge sort. If you dont like that, feel free to change it.

Options

The following options are available, and are passed in the hash reference passed to the function in the format:

OPTION => VALUE

Where an option can take multiple values (like I, k, and pos), values may be passed via an anonymous array:

OPTION => [VALUE1, VALUE2]

Where the OPTION is a switch, it should be passed a boolean VALUE of 1 or 0.
This interface will always be supported, though a more perlish interface may be offered in the future, as well. This interface is basically a mapping of the command-line options to the Unix sort utility.

I INPUT

Pass in the input file(s). This can be either a single string with the filename, or an array reference containing multiple filename strings.

c

Check that single input fle is ordered as specified by the arguments and the collating sequence of the current locale. No output is produced; only the exit code is affected.

m

Merge only; the input files are assumed to already be sorted.

o OUTPUT

Specify the name of an OUTPUT file to be used instead of the standard output.

u

Unique: Suppresses all but one in each set of lines having equal keys. If used with the c option check that there are no lines with consecutive lines with duplicate keys, in addition to checking that the input file is sorted.

y MAX_SORT_RECORDS

Maximum number of lines (records) read before writing to temp file. Default is 200,000. This may eventually change to be kbytes instead of lines. Lines was easier to implement. Can also specify with MAX_SORT_RECORDS environment variable.

F MAX_SORT_FILES

Maximum number of temp files to be held open at once. Default to 40, as older Windows ports had quite a small limit. Can also specify with MAX_SORT_FILES environment variable. No temp files will be used at all if MAX_SORT_RECORDS is never reached.

D

Send debugging information to STDERR. Behavior subject to change.
The following options override the default ordering rules. When ordering options appear independent of any key field specifications, the requested field ordering rules are applied globally to all sort keys. When attached to a specific key (see k), the specified ordering options override all global ordering options for that key.

d

Specify that only blank characters and alphanumeric characters, according to the current locale setting, are significant in comparisons. d overrides i.

f

Consider all lower-case characters that have upper-case equivalents, according to the current locale setting, to be the upper-case equivalent for the purposes of comparison.

i

Ignores all characters that are non-printable, according to the current locale setting.

n

Does numeric instead of string compare, using whatever perl considers to be a number in numeric comparisons.

r

Reverse the sense of the comparisons.

b

Ignore leading blank characters when determining the starting and ending positions of a restricted sort key. If the b option is specified before the first k option, it is applied to all k options. Otherwise, the b option can be attached indepently to each field_start or field_end option argument (see below).

t STRING

Use STRING as the field separator character; char is not considered to be part of a field (although it can be included in a sort key). Each occurrence of char is significant (for example, delimits an empty field). If t is not specified, blank characters are used as default field separators; each maximal non-empty sequence of blank characters that follows a non-blank character is a field separator.

X STRING

Same as t, but STRING is interpreted as a Perl regular expression instead. Do not escape any characters (/ characters need to be escaped internally, and will be escaped for you).

The string matched by STRING is not included in the fields themselves, unless demanded by perls regex and split semantics (e.g., regexes in parentheses will add that matched expression as an extra field). See perlre and "split" in perlfunc.

R STRING

Record separator, defaults to newline.

k pos1[,pos2]

The keydef argument is a restricted sort key field definition. The format of this definition is:

field_start[.first_char][type][,field_end[.last_char][type]]

where field_start and field_end define a key field restricted to a portion of the line, and type is a modifier from the list of characters b, d, f, i, n, r. The b modifier behaves like the b option, but applies only to the field_start or field_end to which it is attached. The other modifiers behave like the corresponding options, but apply only to the key field to which they are attached; they have this effect if specified with field_start, field_end, or both. If any modifier is attached to a field_start or a field_end, no option applies to either.

Occurrences of the k option are significant in command line order. If no k option is specified, a default sort key of the entire line is used. When there are multiple keys fields, later keys are compared only after all earlier keys compare equal.
Except when the u option is specified, lines that otherwise compare equal are ordered as if none of the options d, f, i, n or k were present (but with r still in effect, if it was specified) and with all bytes in the lines significant to the comparison. The order in which lines that still compare equal are written is unspecified.

pos +pos1 [-pos2]

Similar to k, these are mostly obsolete switches, but some people like them and want to use them. Usage is:

+field_start[.first_char][type] [-field_end[.last_char][type]]

Where field_end in k specified the last position to be included, it specifes the last position to NOT be included. Also, numbers are counted from 0 instead of 1. pos2 must immediately follow corresponding +pos1. The rest should be the same as the k option.

Mixing +pos1 pos2 with k is allowed, but will result in all of the +pos1 pos2 options being ordered AFTER the k options. It is best if you Dont Do That. Pick one and stick with it.

Here are some equivalencies:

pos => +1 -2 -> k => 2,2
pos => +1.1 -1.2 -> k => 2.2,2.2
pos => [+1 -2, +3 -5] -> k => [2,2, 4,5]
pos => [+2, +0b -1] -> k => [3, 1b,1]
pos => +2.1 -2.4 -> k => 3.2,3.4
pos => +2.0 -3.0 -> k => 3.1,4.0

Archive sort is a bash script that sorts directories into manageable 4.4GB directories for the purpose of archiving onto DVDs.

It is useful if you have several tens or hundreds of GBs of data to archive. It can also be configured to sort into 700MB directories for archiving onto CDs.

Usage: ./archive-sort [-h] [-s SIZE] [-t] [-v] SOURCE DEST

Archive files from directory DEST to new directory SOURCE in 4.4GB chunks,
or any SIZE specified by the user.

This script has not been tested extensively, so it is recommended that you make a copy of the directory you want to archive, then run the script on that directory. Always use the -t (test) option first and carefully read the output before using the script.

Optional arguments.

-h Print this help message.
-s Size of the archive media (default 4.4 GB)
-t Test run with verbose messages.
-v Verbose

Examples:

First cd to directory containing directories to be archived:

cd /home/user/archive
archive-sort . ../disc01

This is useful if you have several large directories under /home/user/archive, but no files. The archive directory will not be included in disc01.

If you have a directory full of lots of files, then cd to the parent directory of the directory that needs to be archived:

cd /home/user
archive-sort archive disc01

Sort::Fields is a Perl module that can sort lines containing delimited fields.

SYNOPSIS

use Sort::Fields;
@sorted = fieldsort [3, 2n], @lines;
@sorted = fieldsort +, [-1, -3, 0], @lines;

$sort_3_2n = make_fieldsort [3, 2n], @lines;
@sorted = $sort_3_2n->(@lines);

Sort::Fields provides a general purpose technique for efficiently sorting lists of lines that contain data separated into fields.

Sort::Fields automatically imports two subroutines, fieldsort and make_fieldsort, and two variants, stable_fieldsort and make_stable_fieldsort. make_fieldsort generates a sorting subroutine and returns a reference to it. fieldsort is a wrapper for the make_fieldsort subroutine.

The first argument to make_fieldsort is a delimiter string, which is used as a regular expression argument for a split operator. The delimiter string is optional. If it is not supplied, make_fieldsort splits each line using /s+/.

The second argument is an array reference containing one or more field specifiers. The specifiers indicate what fields in the strings will be used to sort the data. The specifier "1" indicates the first field, "2" indicates the second, and so on. A negative specifier like "-2" means to sort on the second field in reverse (descending) order. To indicate a numeric rather than alphabetic comparison, append "n" to the specifier. A specifier of "0" means the entire string ("-0" means the entire string, in reverse order).

The order in which the specifiers appear is the order in which they will be used to sort the data. The primary key is first, the secondary key is second, and so on.
fieldsort [1, 2], @data is roughly equivalent to make_fieldsort([1, 2])->(@data). Avoid calling fieldsort repeatedly with the same sort specifiers. If you need to use a particular sort more than once, it is more efficient to call make_fieldsort once and reuse the subroutine it returns.

stable_fieldsort and make_stable_fieldsort are like their "unstable" counterparts, except that the items that compare the same are maintained in their original order.

EXAMPLES

Some sample data (in array @data):

123 asd 1.22 asdd
32 ewq 2.32 asdd
43 rewq 2.12 ewet
51 erwt 34.2 ewet
23 erww 4.21 ewet
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet
123 refs 3.22 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd

# alpha sort on column 1
print fieldsort [1], @data;

123 asd 1.22 asdd
123 refs 3.22 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd
23 erww 4.21 ewet
32 ewq 2.32 asdd
43 rewq 2.12 ewet
51 erwt 34.2 ewet
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet

# numeric sort on column 1
print fieldsort [1n], @data;

23 erww 4.21 ewet
32 ewq 2.32 asdd
43 rewq 2.12 ewet
51 erwt 34.2 ewet
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet
123 asd 1.22 asdd
123 refs 3.22 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd

# reverse numeric sort on column 1
print fieldsort [-1n], @data;

123 asd 1.22 asdd
123 refs 3.22 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet
51 erwt 34.2 ewet
43 rewq 2.12 ewet
32 ewq 2.32 asdd
23 erww 4.21 ewet

# alpha sort on column 2, then alpha on entire line
print fieldsort [2, 0], @data;

123 asd 1.22 asdd
51 erwt 34.2 ewet
23 erww 4.21 ewet
32 ewq 2.32 asdd
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet
123 refs 3.22 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd
43 rewq 2.12 ewet

# alpha sort on column 4, then numeric on column 1, then reverse
# numeric on column 3
print fieldsort [4, 1n, -3n], @data;

32 ewq 2.32 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd
123 refs 3.22 asdd
123 asd 1.22 asdd
23 erww 4.21 ewet
43 rewq 2.12 ewet
51 erwt 34.2 ewet
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet

# now, splitting on either literal period or whitespace
# sort numeric on column 4 (fractional part of decimals) then
# numeric on column 3 (whole part of decimals)
print fieldsort (?:.|s+), [4n, 3n], @data;

51 erwt 34.2 ewet
43 rewq 2.12 ewet
23 erww 4.21 ewet
123 asd 1.22 asdd
123 refs 3.22 asdd
32 ewq 2.32 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet

# alpha sort on column 4, then numeric on the entire line
# NOTE: produces warnings under -w
print fieldsort [4, 0n], @data;

32 ewq 2.32 asdd
123 asd 1.22 asdd
123 refs 3.22 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd
23 erww 4.21 ewet
43 rewq 2.12 ewet
51 erwt 34.2 ewet
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet

# stable alpha sort on column 4 (maintains original relative order
# among items that compare the same)
print stable_fieldsort [4], @data;

123 asd 1.22 asdd
32 ewq 2.32 asdd
123 refs 3.22 asdd
123 refs 4.32 asdd
43 rewq 2.12 ewet
51 erwt 34.2 ewet
23 erww 4.21 ewet
91 fdgs 3.43 ewet

Sort::Versions is a Perl 5 module for sorting of revision-like numbers.

SYNOPSIS

use Sort::Versions;
@l = sort { versioncmp($a, $b) } qw( 1.2 1.2.0 1.2a.0 1.2.a 1.a 02.a );

...

use Sort::Versions;
print lower if versioncmp(1.2, 1.2a) == -1;

...

use Sort::Versions;
%h = (1 => d, 2 => c, 3 => b, 4 => a);
@h = sort { versioncmp($h{$a}, $h{$b}) } keys %h;

Sort::Versions allows easy sorting of mixed non-numeric and numeric strings, like the version numbers that many shared library systems and revision control packages use. This is quite useful if you are trying to deal with shared libraries. It can also be applied to applications that intersperse variable-width numeric fields within text. Other applications can undoubtedly be found.

For an explanation of the algorithm, its simplest to look at these examples:

1.1 < 1.2
1.1a < 1.2
1.1 < 1.1.1
1.1 < 1.1a
1.1.a < 1.1a
1 < a
a < b
1 < 2
1.1-3 < 1.1-4
1.1-5 < 1.1.6

More precisely (but less comprehensibly), the two strings are treated as subunits delimited by periods or hyphens. Each subunit can contain any number of groups of digits or non-digits. If digit groups are being compared on both sides, a numeric comparison is used, otherwise a ASCII ordering is used. A group or subgroup with more units will win if all comparisons are equal. A period binds digit groups together more tightly than a hyphen.

Some packages use a different style of version numbering: a simple real number written as a decimal. Sort::Versions has limited support for this style: when comparing two subunits which are both digit groups, if either subunit has a leading zero, then both are treated like digits after a decimal point. So for example:

0002 < 1
1.06 < 1.5

This wont always work, because there wont always be a leading zero in real-number style version numbers. There is no way for Sort::Versions to know which style was intended. But a lot of the time it will do the right thing. If you are making up version numbers, the style with (possibly) more than one dot is the style to use.

USAGE

The function versioncmp() takes two arguments and compares them like cmp. With perl 5.6 or later, you can also use this function directly in sorting:

@l = sort versioncmp qw(1.1 1.2 1.0.3);

The function versions() can be used directly as a sort function even on perl 5.005 and earlier, but its use is deprecated.

Sort::External is a Perl module that can sort huge lists.

SYNOPSIS

my $sortex = Sort::External->new( -mem_threshold => 2**24 );
while ( ) {
$sortex->feed($_);
}
$sortex->finish;
while ( defined( $_ = $sortex->fetch ) ) {
&do_stuff_with($_);
}

Problem: You have a list which is too big to sort in-memory.
Solution: "feed, finish, and fetch" with Sort::External, the closest thing to a drop-in replacement for Perls sort() function when dealing with unmanageably large lists.

How it works:

Cache sortable items in memory. Periodically sort the cache and empty it into a temporary sortfile. As sortfiles accumulate, interleave them into larger sortfiles. Complete the sort by sorting the input cache and any existing sortfiles into an output stream.

Note that if Sort::External hasnt yet flushed the cache to disk when finish() is called, the whole operation completes in-memory.

In the CompSci world, "internal sorting" refers to sorting data in RAM, while "external sorting" refers to sorting data which is stored on disk, tape, punchcards, or any storage medium except RAM -- hence, this modules name.

Stringification

Items fed to Sort::External will be returned in stringified form (assuming that the cache gets flushed at least once): $foo = "$foo". Since this is unlikely to be desirable when objects or deep data structures are involved, Sort::External throws an error if you feed it anything other than simple scalars.

Taint and UTF-8 flags

Expert: Sort::External does a little extra bookkeeping to sustain each items taint and UTF-8 flags through the journey to disk and back.

METHODS

new()
my $sortscheme = sub { $Sort::External::b $Sort::External::a };
my $sortex = Sort::External->new(
-mem_threshold => 2**24, # default: 2**20 (1Mb)
-cache_size => 100_000, # default: undef (disabled)
-sortsub => $sortscheme, # default sort: standard lexical
-working_dir => $temp_directory, # default: see below
);

Construct a Sort::External object.

-mem_threshold -- Allow the input cache to consume approximately -mem_threshold bytes before sorting it and flushing to disk. Experience suggests that the optimum setting is somewhere between 2**20 and 2**24: 1-16Mb.
-cache_size -- Specify a hard limit for the input cache in terms of sortable items. If set, overrides -mem_threshold.
-sortsub -- A sorting subroutine. Be advised that you MUST use $Sort::External::a and $Sort::External::b instead of $a and $b in your sub. Before deploying a sortsub, consider using a GRT instead, as described in the Sort::External::Cookbook. Its probably a lot faster.
-working_dir -- The directory where the temporary sortfiles will reside. By default, this directory is created using File::Temps tempdir() command.
feed()

$sortex->feed( @items );

Feed one or more sortable items to your Sort::External object. It is normal for occasional pauses to occur during feeding as caches are flushed and sortfiles are merged.

finish()
# if you intend to call fetch...
$sortex->finish;

# otherwise....
use Fcntl;
$sortex->finish(
-outfile => sorted.txt,
-flags => (O_CREAT | O_WRONLY),
);

Prepare to output items in sorted order.

If you specify the parameter -outfile, Sort::External will attempt to write your sorted list to that location. By default, Sort::External will refuse to overwrite an existing file; if you want to override that behavior, you can pass Fcntl flags to finish() using the optional -flags parameter.

Note that you can either finish() to an -outfile, or finish() then fetch()... but not both.

fetch()
while ( defined( $_ = $sortex->fetch ) ) {
&do_stuff_with($_);
}

Fetch the next sorted item.