The music model distribution changed. For good. Now I do not buy cd's I download only the good songs of a disc, or I get the vinyl if I am nuts about the LP.
I have a fair amount of music I gathered over these years and now I want to turn them into a highly efficient easy to use library working on linux... I had to start from scratch though.... here is what I already have done:
- Got myself a 500GB my passport (Western Digital)
- I copied all of my discs into the Music path
- made a script (python of course :D ) to group and rename the directories by artist/group. It is pretty simple but it did the trick... similar distribution as Itunes
2do - Update correct the tags for each disc, I started using MusicBrainz Picard... is there another option ?
- Get the art work for each full disc.
- Select a music player / library
ideas: amarok - songbird - rythmbox - Let's see how they behave after some tests..... stay tuned !
rename_music.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import sys
import shutil
def put_in_format(text):
texto = (text.lower()).strip(' ')
tmp = []
for word in texto.split(' '):
tmp.append(word.capitalize())
return " ".join(a for a in tmp)
def main():
count = 0
dir=('/media/Master-hdd/Music/JUKEBOX')
os.chdir(dir)
list_dir = os.listdir('.')
for each in list_dir:
if each.count(' - '):
group = put_in_format(each.split(' - ')[0])
disc = put_in_format(each.split(' - ')[1])
try:
os.mkdir(group)
except:
count += 1
if group != each:
shutil.move(each, group+'/'+disc)
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())
