That Stupid Thing I Wrote The Other Day, part 1

Published 2007-03-13 @ 15:13

Tagged ruby, toys

Hopefully this will become a series that will let me clean out my Work/misc dir, but “That Stupid Thing I Wrote The Other Day” needs to be changed because TSTIWTOD is a lame acronym. Suggestions?

I use this to populate my iPod with all my music so I don’t get confused in music stores:

  music = Hash.new { |h,k| h[k] = [] }
  
  Dir.chdir File.expand_path("~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music") do
    Dir["*"].sort.each do |artist|
      artist_name = artist.sub(/^The (.*)/, '\1, The')
      Dir.chdir artist do
        Dir["*"].sort.each do |album|
          music[artist_name] << album
        end
      end
    end
  end
  
  dir = "/Volumes/NanoSpider/Notes/"
  dir = test(?d, dir) ? dir : Dir.pwd
  out = $stdout
  last = nil
  
  music.sort_by { |k,v| k.downcase }.each do |artist, albums|
    letter = artist[0..0].downcase
    if last != letter and dir then
      out.close
      out = File.open("#{dir}/music-#{letter}.txt", "w")
      last = letter
    end
    out.puts "#{artist}:"
    out.puts "  #{albums.sort.join("\n  ")}"
  end
  
  out.close if dir