Musync

Musync is an application to sync music files using youtube-dl. Musync is able to automatically split albums into their songs using ffmpeg

Installing

The easiest way to install is to use go get:

go get github.com/cronokirby/musync

If you've installed the go programming language, this will download, compile, and then place this program in an accessible location in your PATH.

In addition to this, you need to have youtube-dl and ffmpeg accessible from the command line, since Musync will call each of these programs.

Config file

Musync will take a description of the sources you'd like to download, and will then automatically download these sources, and then split them into the songs they're made of.

This information is structured as a TOML file:

[[source]]
  name = "1982"
  artist = "Haircuts for Men"
  url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSp0E0kCzVc"
  path = "vapor/chirpy/"
  timestamps = ["00:00","04:18","08:47","13:15","17:25"]
  namestamps = ["Henry's Lunch Money","Car Key Jingle","Weakling Heart","Acceptance","Midnight Luxxury"]

Each source is given using the "array of tables" syntax in TOML. The url field gives us a location that youtube-dl can download the source from. The timestamps and namestamps fields tell us how to split this source into individual songs. The path field tells us where to place this source after downloading and splitting it. This path is relative to where musync is run. The name and artist fields are just metadata.

In this case, running musync sync example.toml will create a directory vapor/chirpy/1982/ relative to where the command is run. This directory will contain Henry's Lunch Money.mp3 along with the other songs. The program will also fill in the metadata, such as the album name (1982) and the artist.

The file example.toml contains an example of what this file looks like.

Adding new entries

In addition to entering new entries into the file manually, you can also use musync to add them through an interactive prompt. Try running the musync add file.toml command.

Usage

Usage: musync <command>

Flags:
  --help    Show context-sensitive help.

Commands:
  sync <path>
    Sync music files

  add <path>
    Add a new album or song to the syncing file

Run "musync <command> --help" for more information on a command.