feat: script to cherry pick items out of metadata.json

Author: hmerritt

.gitignore

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 node_modules/
 data/
 music/
+scripts/metadata.json
 
 .env
 

scripts/metadata_match_delete.js

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const metadata = require('./metadata.json');
+const newMetadata = [];
+
+//
+// Match track and delete from metadata
+//
+console.log(`Match track and delete from metadata
+`);
+
+// Options
+const DRY_RUN = false;
+const MATCH_PATTERN = /(\[1958\] The Lady In Red)/i;
+
+for (const key in metadata) {
+	const track = metadata[key];
+	const { path: trackPath, metadata: meta } = track;
+	const { title, artist } = meta;
+
+	// If path matches, skip
+	if (trackPath.match(MATCH_PATTERN)) {
+		console.log(`Matched: ${artist} - ${title}`);
+		continue;
+	}
+
+	newMetadata.push(track);
+}
+
+console.log('');
+console.log('Tracks before:', metadata.length);
+console.log('Tracks after: ', newMetadata.length);
+if (DRY_RUN) console.log('DRY RUN: No changes made');
+
+
+// Overwrite metadata
+if (!DRY_RUN) fs.writeFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, 'metadata.json'), JSON.stringify(newMetadata));