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developerWorks: Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 2

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 9, 2004

“This article is the second of a two-part series. Before reading
this article, please take a look at Part 1, which will introduce
you to the autotag.pl application and the rationale for the various
modules used in it. We pick up directly where we left off last
time.

“The main loop of autotag.pl will identify and tag music. In
order to do that, some preparations are in order. First, I create
the FreeDB search object using the WebService::FreeDB
module.

“The search object inherits the DEBUG setting from
the autotag.pl configuration, so that the user does not have to
remember a FREEDB_DEBUG setting for autotag.pl. The
host is provided by the autotag.pl configuration as well…”


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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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