Third Hemisphere Studio tooling
Rearchiver prepares your Reaper project for archiving:
- Scans the project file for all used WAV files
- Finds them in the project directory and converts to FLAC
- Changes the links to the successfully converted source files in the project accordingly
- Optionally deletes processed source files and their
.reapeaks - Outputs the corrected project file
Only WAV files supported by the flac binary can be converted. Currently, this means 32 bit floating point PCM files will be skipped and left uncompressed!
Rearchiver relies on Flac for conversions,
so the flac program must be present in your PATH or placed in the same directory as rearchiver executable.
By default the edited project file is written to the standard output, use redirection or -o to write to a file:
# redirect standard output to a file
> rearchiver INPUT.rpp > output.rpp
# write to a file
> rearchiver INPUT.rpp -o output2.rpp
Rearchiver is interactive, it will print the pairs of the found WAV files and the proposed names for the FLACs and will ask for your confirmation. Use -y to bypass the confirmation.
Additional options are available in help: rearchiver --help.
Rearchiver tries to be conservative and will not overwrite anything unless asked by the user. However, there might be bugs.
This software is provided without any guarantees.
Rearchiver is tested to work under Windows and GNU/Linux. Probably works on OSX with no changes.
Download a binary from the release assets or compile yourself.
Building requires the Nim compiler and a Nim package manager (such as Nimble) to resolve the dependencies.
Third-party libraries Rearchiver relies on: threading, argparse.
Use choosenim to install and manage the Nim compilation toolchain.
To install with Nimble:
nimble install https://github.com/indiscipline/rearchiver
rearchiver -h
- Add support for WavPack as an alternative codec / codec supporting 32 bit float WAV files
- Migrate to a proper pool for managing concurrent process execution
- Consider if there are any practical benefits in properly parsing the project file, instead of doing it by dumb text substitution
The project is open for contributions. Please, try to limit the scope of your changes.
Open an issue for bugs, ideas and feature requests.
Rearchiver is licensed under GNU General Public License version 3.0 or later; See LICENSE.md for full details.
Logo is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)