Evolving Music Collection Cleanup

This is a process for cleaning up a live music collection according to specific rules.

The file structure for live music is:

Artist/
  YEAR/
    YEAR.MON.DAY Venue, City, StateCode - Info

Likewise, the file structure for studio music is:

Artist/
  YEAR/
    YEAR AlbumName

Installation

Install ffmpeg, lame, and imagemagick.

On Debian/Ubuntu Linux, do:

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg lame libmp3lame0 imagemagick

From this path, symlink emcc to user's bin directory:

ln -s `pwd`/emcc ~/bin/

Updates

From this path, run:

git pull

Usage

emcc [path] [mode] [bitrate]

Path

The path is assumed to be a collection of artists defined as subdirectories.

/media/ExternalHD/Music/
  Band/
  Band 1/
  Band 2/

Any subdirectories containg characters aside from A-Z 0-9 or ,' & will be automatically ignored.

Thus, folders can be skipped by naming something like: Band - Unorganized since the - will cause it to skip.

Thus, for this example, use:

emcc "/media/ExternalHD/Music"

Mode

When mode is 0 or blank, the process will run in simulation and not make any changes.

However, when mode is 1, changes will be made.

Bitrate

Bitrate options are either blank which defaults to 256, 256 or 320.

256 is encoded V0 variable bitrate with lame encoder. 320 encodes to constant bitrate.

Keep Certain Files in FLAC Format

By default the script converts high quality to good quality mp3, but to stop this from happening to FLAC files, create a file in the path directory named .emcc-keep. Within this file, match what you want to skip like:

.emcc-keep

Band 1
Band 2/2000/2000.12.31 New Years

Work-in-Progress

This script is currently a work-in-progress and is only advised to be run against a test directory.