Aur

I have a pretty large collection of digital music (and even bigger physical one) and I like to keep it organized. Really organized.

This program helps with that, pulling together a dozen or so smaller scripts written over the last twenty-ish years in various languages, adding tests and a uniform interface.

Rules and assumptions are:

• FLACs are in /storage/flac; MP3s are in /storage/mp3. Every FLAC exists as an MP3, but not vice-versa.
• Albums are under albums/abc etc; EPs and singles under eps/; loose tracks under tracks/. Stuff to be processed and filed is under new/.
• Audio files are named nn.artist.title.suffix. nn is a zero-padded two-digit number. If the artist is "The" something, the_ is removed from the filename.
• Tags must be populated for artist, title, album, track number, genre and year. Any other tags are removed.
• FLAC albums have artwork stored as front.jpg, and no bigger than 700x700 pixels. MP3s have no artwork. Embedded artwork is removed.
• Capitalisation of titles is broadly in line with this
• Files not suffixed flac or mp3 are silently ignored. (Expect by lintdir).
• Hitting a file which looks like music but isn't stops the world.
• Loads of other finnicky little nitpicks peculiar to me.

Though native crates exist to encode/decode/transcode all the media types I'm interested in, I have chosen to shell out to LAME and the reference FLAC encoder. Though I am sure the Rust media libraries are excellent, they aren't battle tested to anything like the same degree.

I haven't included any proper documentation, because aur is so strongly opinionated that it will likely be of no use to anyone else in the world. If you really insist on trying it, --help ought to be enough.

But, there are thousands of alternatives which do not implement all my personal preferences. Use one of those.

This is a Rust rewrite of a Ruby program.