rolabesti 0.1.1

Command-line application to manage a music library of mp3 tracks

• Motivation

• Description

• Requirements

• Installation

• Usage

Motivation

The main motivation is to answer a question that music fans, DJs, bartenders and melomaniacs with tons of audio files may face: ‘What music do I play?’ That is, ‘what genre do I want now?’ or ‘which random songs can fill up the time I am able to listen?’ are the type of questions that rolabesti replies.

Description

rolabesti is an command-line application to manage a music library, performing the following actions on mp3 files: parsing, searching, playing, enqueueing, copying, and tagging.

Requirements

• Linux environment.

• Python 3.3+. An isolated virtual environment is very recommended. More info about virtualenv here.

• MongoDB running instance.

• libvlc library and vlc player.

Installation

pip install rolabesti

Usage

rolabesti [-h] SUBCOMMAND [ARGUMENTS]

You can check the arguments for each subcommand with:

rolabesti SUBCOMMAND -h

Let’s see a couple of examples.

To play two hours of rock music, limiting the track length to 10 minutes, with random sorting:

rolabesti play -g rock -l 120 --max 10 -s random

To play an hour of rap music from Iceland, skipping intro and outro tracks (less than 2 minutes length), with ascending sorting:

rolabesti play -g rap -l 60 -p Iceland --min 2 -s asc