I am writing an application that will store music info in a mySQL database on the server, and will deliver information about these tracks to some client (Flash or Android, or whatever is asking).
So, my question is what is the least painful way to populate said data given a giant list of mp3 files. I'm very comfortable in Perl, PHP, Python, and Java, and am looking for suggestions on which tool is the simplest to use for running through a long list of mp3s and updating a database based on what it finds. Ideally I'd be able to pull out the JPGs associated with them as well, if they're embedded in the file.