Script to Deal with Organizing Music

Question

Hello all,
So I've been wanting to organize my music collection for a while, and I wanted to also fix errors with tags. Instead of spending an hour to do it by hand, and have things degenerate again over time, I wanted to create a script that would do this all automatically every time I ran it.  I'm just not really sure how to write out the script.
So here's what I want the script to do:
My music is organized in the ~/music folder on my machine. Each folder here is an artist's name. I want to use a tool like mp3id to take this folder name as a variable like $artist_name and force all music files under it to have $artist_name in metadata.
In each artist's folder, there will be a folder for each album. I want to to make sure all files under each album contain the the album name and the appropriate album art, if possible.
What would be a good way to go about scripting this? I'm a little bit familiar with shell scripting, but I'm not sure about mp3 metadata editors, or how to make a script visit every subfolder in a given folder. Any insights are appreciated!

Answer 1

I've also found that foobar2000 on Wine tends to work quite well for this task -- Masstagger for unifying the tagging scheme, its file operations for the directory reorganization. Though I haven't used Picard in some time, and if you can get it to do this I'll be looking into it again.