I recently decided that I won’t own any music from an artist that is represented by the RIAA. Now, how do I go about De-RIAAing my ripped albums?

RIAA Radar has a website that will let you search for artists, albums, keywords, etc and it will give you information as to whether or not an album was released under the RIAA.

So I did a view-source on their search page and determined that there are only three variables that you need to POST in order to search: searchtype, keyword, and submit.

I can use wget to grab the file, like so:
wget http://www.riaaradar.com/search.asp --post-data "searchtype=ArtistSearch&keyword=Audioslave&submit=Go\!" -O Audioslave

This saves the file as Audioslave. Audioslave IS represented by the RIAA, by the way.

Now, how do I take my ripped albums and compare them to the RIAA Radar site?

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Well, I got frustrated with having to refer to documentation every time I wanted to do something with regexps, so I decided to find a cheat sheet. I hate regexps, but I love them too, you know?

Thankfully, www.ilovejackdaniels.com has a cheat sheet I don’t mind having. It’s more thorough than the others I’ve found and it comes in PDF and PNG formats. I had to print the PNG one, since evince printed the greys as solid black in the PDF version.

Anyway, check it out here.

I’ve been using regexps so much lately that I contemplated taping it over my second monitor. I settled for hanging it from the cube wall right next to it.

Until next time!

-LightningCrash