ACRCloud Scan Tool (Python3)

Overview

ACRCloud provides services such as Music Recognition, Broadcast Monitoring, Custom Audio Recognition, Copyright Compliance & Data Deduplication, Live Channel Detection, and Offline Recognition etc.

Requirements

Follow one of the tutorials to create a project and get your host, access_key and access_secret.

• Recognize Music
• Recognize Custom Content
• Broadcast Monitoring for Music
• Broadcast Monitoring for Custom Content
• Detect Live & Timeshift TV Channels
• Recognize Custom Content Offline
• Recognize Live Channels and Custom Content

This tool can scan audio/video files and detect audios you want to recognize such as music, ads.

Supported Format:

Audio: mp3, wav, m4a, flac, aac, amr, ape, ogg ... Video: mp4, mkv, wmv, flv, ts, avi ...

Features

• scan file
• scan folder
• export the report
• filter report result
• custom report fields

Notice

If you are using Windows. Please make sure you've installed Microsoft Visual C++ runtime

X86: download and install Library(windows/vcredist_x86.exe)
x64: download and install Library(windows/vcredist_x64.exe)

Getting Started

1. Install Python 3 (64-bit)

https://www.python.org/downloads/

2. Clone this repository / Download repository zip file

$ git clone https://github.com/acrcloud/acrcloud_scan_files_python3.git

3. Install requirements.txt:

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Copy config.yaml.example and save as config.yaml. Change the content of config.yaml, fill in your host, access_key and access_secret.

5. Run the script to scan your audio/video files:

$ python main.py -t ~/test/test.mp4

Usage

Usage: main.py [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -t, --target TEXT               The target need to scan (a folder or a
                                  file).  [required]

  -o, --output TEXT               Output result to this folder. (Must be a
                                  folder path)

  --format [csv|json]             output format.(csv or json)
  -w, --with-duration / --no-duration
                                  Add played duration to the result
  --filter-results / --no-filter  Enable filter.(It must be used when the
                                  with-duration option is on)

  -p, --split-results / --no-split
                                  Each audio/video file generate a report
  -c, --scan-type [music|custom|both]
                                  scan type
  -s, --start-time-ms INTEGER     scan start time
  -e, --end-time-ms INTEGER       scan end time
  -f, --is-fp / --not-fp          scan fingerprint
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Results with played duration

If you want your results to include played duration. Please email us (support@acrcloud.com) to get the usage and the permission

• with played duration:

$ python main.py -t ~/test/test.mp4 -w

• with played duration and filter results

$ python main.py -t ~/test/test.mp4 -w --filter-results

Using Docker

• Install Docker
  • If you are using Windows or MacOS: Download Docker Desktop and install.
  • If you are using Linux: Open the Terminal and input bash <(curl -s https://get.docker.com/)
• Change the config file (config.yaml).
• Run following command

  git clone https://github.com/acrcloud/acrcloud_scan_files_python3.git
  
  cd acrcloud_scan_files_python3
  
  sudo docker build -t acrcloud/acrscan .
  # Call it without arguments to display the full help
  sudo docker run --rm acrcloud/acrscan
  
  # Basic usage
  sudo docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/tmp -v /Users/acrcloud/:/music/ acrcloud/acrscan -t /test/test.mp4 -o /tmp
  
  You need to change /Users/acrcloud/ to the directory where your audio/video file is.
  And the report file will in the acrcloud_scan_files_python3 directory.