tunedice
Tools for managing person-specific music dirs.
Used for building directories for a single person's 'slice' of a master shared music directory, suitable for uploading to a music locker service (Amazon or Google Music, for example).
Works by creating a '.dice' file specifying whether an individual cares about the music in a given directory (or subdirectory). '.dice' can contain either a user's name, if they want that music uploaded to their locker, or !name, if they don't.
For example, given:
.
./Allo Darlin
./Allo Darlin/.dice
./Allo Darlin/Allo Darlin
./Allo Darlin/Europe
./Los Campesinos
./Los Campesinos/Romance is Boring
./Los Campesinos/Romance is Boring/.dice
./Los Campesinos/Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
./Sin Fang
./Sin Fang/.dice
./Sin Fang/Flowers
./Sin Fang/Summer Echoes
./Widowspeak
./Widowspeak/Almanac
./Widowspeak/Widowspeak
$ cat ./Allo\ Darlin/.dice
john
$ cat ./Los\ Campesinos/Romance\ is\ Boring/.dice
john
$ cat ./Sin\ Fang/.dice
!john
Then it is assumed:
- john wants ALL of Allo Darlin/ uploaded to his locker
- john wants NONE of Sin Fang uploaded to his locker
- john has NOT YET DECIDED about any albums of Widowspeak.
- john wants the 'Romance is Boring' album ONLY of Los Campesinos uploaded to his locker; he has not yet decided about the 'Sticking Fingers Into Sockets' album.
checker.py
For john to check what music he has not yet decided about:
$ tunedice/checker.py --user=john /music
Missing: /music/Los Campesinos/Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
Missing: /music/Widowspeak/Almanac
Missing: /music/Widowspeak/Widowspeak
John should create new .dice files in each folder specified (or the level up, if he wants to make a bulk decision about an artist).
builder.py
For jane to actually create her upload directory, with symlinks to her desired music (that is, the directory her cloud provider will be looking in for files to upload), she can (once she has used checker.py to her satisfaction) do something like:
$ mkdir jane-upload
$ cd jane-upload
$ ~/tunedice/builder.py --user=jane ../Music
User wants: ../Music/The Beatles symlinked to The Beatles
OK: done!
User wants: ../Music/The Kinks symlinked to The Kinks
OK: done!
User wants: ../Music/The Rolling Stones/Exile on Main Street symlinked to The Rolling Stones/Exile on Main Street
Deep; need to make The Rolling Stones
OK: done!
This will ignore any directories which have not had jane's preference specified (i.e. ONLY directories with a .dice containing 'jane' will be symlinked; to put it another way, nothing reported by checker.py as missing will be symlinked).
This example results in:
./The Beatles -> ../Music/The Beatles
./The Kinks -> ../Music/The Kinks
./The Rolling Stones
./The Rolling Stones/Exile on Main Street -> ../Music/The Rolling Stones/Exile on Main Street
Note that either relative or absolute paths are supported for the base directory; if relative, symlinks will be created as relative; if absolute, symlinks will be absolute.