Aces

What is this ?

This is a Bash script toolbox, aiming to help transcode, organize and split music files.

• diamonds: transcode music files to vorbis and flac.
• clubs: organize music file following a pattern.
• spades: break down music files into smaller tracks.

Requirements

All scripts were developed using Bash 5 ; they require a Bash version at least superior to 3.2.75 and aim for #!/usr/local/bin/bash (to let you customize your shell).

MacOS, notably, ships an outdated Bash version which will fail to run these scripts (unless preemptively modified).

Ffmpeg (and Ffprobe) are required (and made heavy use of). It is necessary to have a libvorbis-enabled ffmpeg.

Usage

This section presents base usage of each script.

Other parameters and options are available ; use the --help to learn everything about it.

Diamonds

Helps you transcode music files from various formats to either OGG (Vorbis) or Flac.

Invoke the script with the input, output and codec parameters (at least).

$ ./diamonds.bash --input "~/Musics/To/Transcode" --output "~/Musics/Transcoded" --codec vorbis

WARNING: during execution, some files will crash ffmpeg, thus crashing the script, which will stop execution.

Clubs

Helps you sort OGG and Flac music files in your filesystem, according to their music tags.

Invoke the script with the input and output parameters (at least).

$ ./clubs.bash --input "~/Musics/To/Organize" --output "~/Musics/Organized" 

Spades

Helps you split music (or video) files into smaller pieces. No attempt will be made to transcode anything; running the script will result in small pieces of the same media container.

Invoke the script with the input and output parameters, as well as at least one track specification.

$ ./spades.bash --input "~/File/To.Split" --output "~/Musics/Splited" --track "Title" --start "00:00" --end "50s"  

TODOs

• pre-commit hook TODO engine
• "rebuts" for diamonds
• redact proper Shellguide
• add read csv from stdin to spades
• wrapper around youtube-dl ?