Musichaos

Bring tidiness into your music chaos

musichaos is a tool to tidy up the chaos in your local music library on a file basis. It pulls the tags from the audio files and structures the audio files like this:

~/music
│   ├── Artist 01
│   │   └── Album 01
│   │   │   └── Title 01
│   │   │   │── Title 02
│   ├── Artist 02
│   │   └── Album 01
│   │   │   └── Title 01
│   │   │   │── Title 02

Installation

From pip:

pip install musichaos

From source:

git clone https://github.com/timofurrer/musichaos
cd musichaos
pip install .

Usage - Command Line Interface

musichaos can be used as a CLI tool.

To use it just specify the root directory which contains your music chaos and a target directory where to put the clean structure. They can point to the same location.

musichaos ~/downloads ~/music

This will end up in the following structure

~/music
│   ├── Artist 01
│   │   └── Album 01
│   │   │   └── Title 01
│   │   │   │── Title 02
│   ├── Artist 02
│   │   └── Album 01
│   │   │   └── Title 01
│   │   │   │── Title 02

If you do not want to move the audio file but link them instead - run the following command:

musichaos ~/downloads ~/music --link

This will end up in the following structure

~/music
│   ├── Artist 01
│   │   └── Album 01
│   │   │   └── Title 01 -> ../../../downloads/Some_weird_audio_file_01.mp3
│   │   │   │── Title 02 -> ../../../downloads/Some_weird_audio_file_02.mp3
│   ├── Artist 02
│   │   └── Album 01
│   │   │   └── Title 01 -> ../../../downloads/Some_weird_audio_file_03.mp3
│   │   │   │── Title 02 -> ../../../downloads/Some_weird_audio_file_04.mp3

If you are not sure what musichaos will do - just do a dry run:

musichaos ~/downloads ~/music --dry-run

Let's have a look at the help message:

Usage: __main__.py [OPTIONS] ROOTDIR TARGETDIR

  Tidy up your music chaos.

Options:
  -l, --link  Link audio files instead of move.
  --dry-run   Run a dry run.
  --help      Show this message and exit.

Usage - Python Package

musichaos can be imported in your python project, too. Just install it in your python environment and import musichaos:

from musichaos import Musichaos

chaos = Musichaos(rootdir)
chaos.tidy_up(targetdir, link, dry_run)

Supported Audio File Formats

At the moment the following file formats are supported: