FDO Impro Randomizer

Generate randomized play orders from a given folder of audio files.

Created for the Finnish Dance Organization "Improvisation" competition category music.

Rust version

Usage: fdo-randomizer [OPTIONS] <INPUT_DIR> [PERMUTATIONS]

Arguments:
  <INPUT_DIR>     Input directory with audio files to randomize
  [PERMUTATIONS]  Optional number of randomized orders to generate (default is 1)

Options:
  -o, --output <PATH>  Optional output root path (default is input path parent dir)
  -f, --force          Overwrite existing output directories
  -v, --verbose        Verbose output
  -h, --help           Print help
  -V, --version        Print version

Build and run

Install Rust and then:

./build.sh
./fdo-randomizer --help

Or directly with:

cargo run --release -- --help

cargo run --release -- "input dir" 10

Debug errors:

RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run -- FOLDER 8 --force --output "$HOME/Downloads/IMPRO"

Python version

Note

You should probably be using the newer and better Rust version instead.

Dependencies

• Python 3.11+
• click
• colorama

Project is handled by Poetry.

Run

poetry run python randomizer/randomizer.py <input_dir> [num_permutations]