pymusiclooper 1.2.0

Automatically find loop points of any song and play endlessly or export into intro/loop/outro sections or loop points.

PyMusicLooper

A script for repeating music seamlessly and endlessly, by automatically finding the best loop points.

Features:

• Find loop points within any music file (if they exist).
• Supports a large set of different audio formats, and all the popular ones (MP3, OGG, M4A, FLAC, WAV, etc).
• Play the music file endlessly and seamlessly with the best discovered loop.
• Export to intro/loop/outro sections for editing or seamless playback within any music player that supports gapless playback.
• Export loop points in samples (e.g. for use in creating custom themes with seamlessly looping audio).

Installation

Requires Python >=3.6 to run. This program depends on NumPy (for arrays and mathematical operations) and Librosa (for audio analysis and beat extraction). If you don't have these dependencies installed, they'll be automatically downloaded:

pip install git+https://github.com/arkrow/PyMusicLooper.git

To play music endlessly through the terminal, the external library mpg123 is required. Available through the following link: (https://www.mpg123.de/download.shtml).

Usage

usage: python -m pymusiclooper [-h] [-p] [-e] [-j] [-b] [-r] [-o OUTPUT_DIR]
                               [-m MIN_DURATION_MULTIPLIER]
                               path

Automatically find loop points in music files and play/export them.

positional arguments:
  path                  path to music file.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p, --play            play the song on repeat with the best discovered loop
                        point (default).
  -e, --export          export the song into intro, loop and outro files (WAV
                        format).
  -j, --json            export the loop points (in samples) to a JSON file in
                        the song's directory.
  -b, --batch           batch process all the files within the given path
                        (usage with export args [-e] or [-j] only).
  -r, --recursive       process directories and their contents recursively
                        (usage with [-b/--batch] only).
  -o OUTPUT_DIR, --output-dir OUTPUT_DIR
                        specify the output directory (defaults to the track's
                        directory).
  -m MIN_DURATION_MULTIPLIER, --min-duration-multiplier MIN_DURATION_MULTIPLIER
                        specify minimum loop duration as a multiplier of song
                        duration (default: 0.35)

PyMusicLooper will find the best loop point it can detect, and will then, depending on your arguments:

(a) play the song on repeat using the best discovered loop point (default, requires mpg123);

(b) export intro/loop/outro sections of the song (currently outputs as WAV-only, although you may convert with ffmpeg or Audacity);

(c) export the loop points (in samples) to a JSON text file, which you can use for audio loops in custom theme creation, etc.

Example Usage

Note: If on Windows, you can Shift+Right-Click in an empty spot in the song's folder and choose command-line/powershell from the context menu. Otherwise, cd/dir to the folder.

Play the song on repeat with the best discovered loop point.

python -m pymusiclooper "Song I Could Listen To Forever.mp3"

Export the song into intro, loop and outro files, as well as the loop points used (outputs in the same directory/folder as the track).

python -m pymusiclooper -ej "some music track.ogg"

Export the loop points of all the songs in the current directory.

python -m pymusiclooper -bj .

The I WANT IT ALL option. Export intro/loop/outro sections and loop points of all the songs in the current directory and its subdirectories, to a folder called "Music Loops".

python -m pymusiclooper -brej . -o "Music Loops"

If the loop is very long (or very short), you may specify a different minimum duration for the algorithm to use, which is 0.35 (35%) by default. If the most of the track is the loop section, specifying a higher multiplier will also speed the algorithm up. Here -m 0.85 means that, excluding silence, the loop section is at least 85% of the music track.

python -m pymusiclooper "super long track.flac" -m 0.85

Building from source

Requried python packages: pip and setuptools.

Clone the git repository to a directory of your choice and cd to inside the repo.

Run:

python setup.py build

Followed by:

python setup.py install

Contribution

If there is a song that you think PyMusicLooper should be able to loop but doesn't, please feel free to open an issue with a link to that song and mention the approximate timestamp at which it loops. Forks and pull requests are of course welcome.

Acknowledgement

This project started out as a fork of Nolan Nicholson's project Looper. Although at this point only a few lines of code remain from that project due to adopting a completely different approach and implementation, without their contributions this project would not have been possible.

Version History

• v1.2.0 Removed unreliable cache implementation
• v1.1.0 Added support for batch processing
• v1.0.0 Initial Release