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Adding Metadata to Your Garageband Project

Adding Metadata to Your Garageband Project

Tutorial Details
  • Topics: Audio, Garageband
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 20 Minutes

Adding metadata to an audio file can be confusing and unintuitive. In this screencast we’ll take a look at some common pitfalls and find the fastest, easiest way to solve the problem.


Adding Metadata to Your Garageband Project

Perl Code from Automator Action

$oldfile = "$ARGV[0]";
$newfile = $oldfile;
$path = "/";
$newfile =~ s/.*\/Ep\s(\d*).*//g;
$newfile = substr("00$1",-3);
$newfile = "handlebars$newfile";
$newfile = "$path$newfile";
rename $oldfile, $newfile;
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