slm creates a filesystem-based database of music files. It
recursively inspects all music files in MUSIC_DIR (specified in
config.h) and creates entries in FARM_DIR, which defaults to
~/music_farm. (A better term than farm/symlink-farm welcome.) It
indexes on album name and artist name. A music file that we can read
(currently only ones with ID3 tags, like MP3s) will cause the creation
of two symlinks:
${FARM_DIR}/artists/${artist}/${album}/${tracknumber}_${title}.${EXT}
${FARM_DIR}/albums/${album}/${tracknumber}_${title}.${EXT}
Where ${artist}, ${album}, ${tracknumber}, and ${title} come
from the music file's metadata, ${FARM_DIR} comes from config.h, and
${EXT} comes from the original file.
Usage: slm [OPTION...]
music curation
Options:
-v: Verbose mode
-h: Use hardlinks instead of symlinks
- ID3 tag reading works correctly for all of my MP3s.
- Symlinks are created as specified above.
- atom tag support - this is what AAC files use.
- back-links to the created symlinks, so if a file moves or is deleted we can efficiently update the symlink farm.
- maybe a daemon that watches for new or moved files with inotify/kqueue.
- testing under BSDs
slm is offered under the MIT license, see LICENSE for details.