mck

mck will find music recursively in the directory(ies) you specify, and can perform automated organization and quality checks, invoke spek for manual spectrographic quality checking, and invoke ffmpeg to convert them to m4a, mp3, or flac with sensible default settings.

Operations

check

mck check <path/to/music>

For each folder containing audio, ensure:

the folder is named in the format "Artist Name -- Album Name"
a cover.jpg exists
no other non-audio files exist, except in an extras directory

For each audio file, ensure:

the bitrate listed in the metadata is over 200 KB/s

spek

Requires spek to be installed

mck spek <path/to/music>

convert

Requires ffmpeg to be installed

mck convert <path/to/music> [--output-format <fmt>]

Supported formats: m4a, mp3, flac. Default: m4a.

Options

`--select-formats`

mck <action> <path/to/music> --select-formats <fmt1> [<fmt2> ...]

Specify audio formats to select as inputs to the script. Must be a subset or equal to the supported formats. This option can be applied to any operation. Files with other formats (other than cover.jpg and those in extras) are treated as unexpected files.

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