---
name: "bitcollider"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bitcollider"
version: "0.6.0-1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bitcollider"
---

# bitcollider(1)

collects bitprint and other information from files for bitzi.com

## NAME

bitcollider — collects bitprint and other information from files for bitzi.com

## SYNOPSIS

**bitcollider** \[*options*\]  \<*file*\|*dir*\> \[\<*file*\|*dir*\> ...\]

**bitcollider** \[*options*\]  -f \<tag file\>

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly describes the  **bitcollider**d\> command.

Bitcollider is a small program to reliably identify and describe files  on your machine. When run with a specific file as input, this program  does two major things:

- •

  It examines the file, calculating a distinctive digital fingerprint,  or bitprint, and taking note of some other identifying information that  can be extracted from the file, like file length and the local filename.

- •

  It launches your web browser to do a lookup at our website, submitting  this identifying information as the search terms.

At bitzi.com you'll see what - if anything - others have said about your  file, and have a chance to contribute descriptions or comments yourself.  If your automatic submission included information useful to our database,  that new information will be contributed to the database under your screen  name.

For more information, go to http://bitzi.com/bitcollider.

## OPTIONS

- **-p**

  print the submission info, without submitting

- **-n**

  show submission in browser, without submitting

- **-u**

  send submission to alternate URL

- **-3**

  force mp3 analysis even if file does not end in .mp3

- **-e \<ext\>**

  treat file as if it had a given extension

- **-d**

  debug print during plugin loading

- **-r**

  recurse into directories

- **-a**

  analyze all files for a given directory.   (Default is to analyze only known extensions)

- **-f \<file\>**

  read tags from \<file\> instead of analyzing

- **-k**

  use the Konqueror to submit

- **-m**

  use the Mozilla to submit

- **-o**

  use the Opera to submit

- **-l**

  use the lynx to submit

By default Netscape will be used. You may also set the  BROWSER environment variable to specify your browser of choice.  Check http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER/index.html for details.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Philip Stadermann \<philip.stadermann@iterationx.de\> for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.