tapedeck 0.0.5

One way to use it

Perform a search:

$ tdsearch Music
  1. Elegant Gypsy
  2. Exile On Main St. (Remastered)
  3. Highwayman
  4. Roll On (Bonus Track Version)
  5. Sleepless Nights
  6. The Essential Donovan
  7. Townes Van Zandt
  8. Skull Fu^H^H and Roses
$ tdplay -m 7 -o icecast

Play the stream remotely:

~> tdplay http://192.168.1.100:8777/asdf  # ip address of your machine here

View the cached search:

$ tdsearch -m
  1. Elegant Gypsy
  2. Exile On Main St. (Remastered)
  3. Highwayman
  4. Roll On (Bonus Track Version)
  5. Sleepless Nights
  6. The Essential Donovan
  7. Townes Van Zandt
  8. Skull Fu^H^H and Roses

And the band keeps playing on…

– John Perry Barlow

Motivation

I have at least four avocado boxes of cd’s in my basement, many of them damaged by decades of shipping around the country without their cases. A lot of them are ripped, and I also download live recordings thanks to bt.etree.org all the time. All this data has almost filled a terabyte cloud drive. Plus it’s scattered all over a pile of old hard drives and home directory backups. Finally, I want an easy way to keep my old phone active as a stereo receiver via VLC.

So, Tapedeck strives to organize this type of music collection and provide a way for you to enjoy your music.

History

I’ve had some scripts around for a while to manage my music, but I’ve never built them into anything bigger partly because they require some complicated programming techniques that I never really mastered. Now that I have found some easier ways to program this type of thing, I feel like I can put it all together into a nifty python package.

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