m3u-maker 0.1.4

finds music files in directory and create a m3u playlist

m3u maker

Installation

This script doesn't have any dependencies except from python, so install python3.6+ before. python2 is not supported

with pip

pip install m3u-maker
m3u-maker ~/Music > out.m3u

available aliases

the best way to run is directly with: python -m m3u_maker

but the following aliases are available m3u-maker, mkm3u, mkm3u8

manual

git clone https://github.com/CastixGitHub/m3u_maker
cd m3u_maker
python m3u_maker.py ~/Music > out.m3u

Help menu

usage: 'm3u_maker [-h] [sources [sources ...]]

    Finds music files by extension (flac, ogg, oga, wav, mp3,
    aiff, aif, loss, m4a, aac, alac, mogg, opus. webm, mp4, wma, mpc)
    inside a folders and it's subdirectories, makes a m3u file
    without metadata
    

positional arguments:
  sources     
              Source directories that contains the music
              (subdirectories are included).
              We suggest to use an absolute path for better
              compatibility with players.
              If you want to use relative paths remember that them
              are relative to the location of the output m3u file.
              Defaults to the directory where the script is called
              from (`pwd`).

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

    Example Usage:
    python m3u_maker.py ~/Music > out.m3u
    Example with random order without duplicates:
    python m3u_maker.py ~/Music | uniq | shuf > out.m3u

Testing & Development

after activating a virtualenv:

install the project with

pip install -e '.[test]'

run the tests with

pytest --cov=.

release a new version on pypi

1. update the version number in setup.py
2. clean the old built rm -rf dist
3. build tarball and wheel with python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
4. install twine pip install twine
5. upload with twine upload dist/m3u_maker-*