I found what looks like the perfect script for this but getting errors. Hoping someone can see problem. I am running 12.04 Server.

Error is - awk: line 0: regular expression compile failed (missing '(') ): awk: line 0: regular expression compile failed (missing '(') )>

The following tags have been found in the mp3s:

These tags are to be stripped:

Here is a the script obtained from savvyadmin

!/bin/bash

Script name: strip-tags.sh

Original Author: Ian of DarkStarShout Blog

Site: http://darkstarshout.blogspot.com/

Options slightly modified to liking of SavvyAdmin.com

oktags="TALB APIC TCON TPE1 TPE2 TPE3 TIT2 TRCK TYER TCOM TPOS"

indexfile=mktemp

Determine tags present:

find . -iname "*.mp3" -exec eyeD3 --no-color -v {} \; > $indexfile tagspresent=sort -u $indexfile | awk -F\): '/^<.*$/ {print $1}' \ | uniq | awk -F\)\> '{print $1}' | awk -F\( '{print $(NF)}' \ | awk 'BEGIN {ORS=" "} {print $0}'

rm $indexfile

Determine tags to strip:

tostrip=echo -n $tagspresent $oktags $oktags \ | awk 'BEGIN {RS=" "; ORS="\n"} {print $0}' | sort | uniq -u \ | awk 'BEGIN {ORS=" "} {print $0}'

Confirm action:

echo echo The following tags have been found in the mp3s: echo $tagspresent echo These tags are to be stripped: echo $tostrip echo echo -n Press enter to confirm, or Ctrl+C to cancel... read dummy

Strip 'em

stripstring=echo $tostrip \ | awk 'BEGIN {FS="\n"; RS=" "} {print "--set-text-frame=" $1 ": "}'

First pass copies any v1.x tags to v2.3 and strips unwanted tag data.

Second pass removes v1.x tags, since I don't like to use them.

Without --no-tagging-time-frame, a new unwanted tag is added. :-)

find . -iname "*.mp3" \ -exec eyeD3 --to-v2.3 --no-tagging-time-frame $stripstring {} \; \ -exec eyeD3 --remove-v1 --no-tagging-time-frame {} \;

echo "Script complete!"