diff --git a/README b/README.md similarity index 69% rename from README rename to README.md index d94b0aa..d60bf87 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README.md @@ -1,71 +1,57 @@ -AtOM: Anything to Ogg and Mp3 +# AtOM: Anything to Ogg and Mp3 URL: https://forge.riquer.fr/p/AtOM/ Author: Vincent Riquer Copyright/left: 2012-2013,2015,2025 Vincent Riquer - GPLv3 (see doc/GPL-3) except: transogg: WTFPL 2.0 -============ -Dependencies ------------- -Required: -* bash (>= 4.0) - http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html -* SoX - http://sox.sourceforge.net/ -* SQLite - http://www.sqlite.org/ +## Dependencies +### Required: +* [bash (>= 4.0)](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html) +* [SoX](http://sox.sourceforge.net/) +* [SQLite](http://www.sqlite.org/) -Optional: -* vorbis-tools - http://www.vorbis.com/ - * ogginfo (Ogg Vorbis metadata) - * oggenc (Ogg Vorbis encoding) -* opus-tools - http://opus-codec.org/ - * opusinfo (Opus metadata) - * opusenc (Opus encoding) - * opusdec (Opus decoding) -* LAME MP3 Encoder - http://lame.sourceforge.net/ - * lame (MP3 encoding) -* FLAC - http://flac.sourceforge.net/ - * metaflac (FLAC metadata) -* Musepack - http://www.musepack.net/ - * mpcdec (Musepack decoding) -* FFmpeg - http://ffmpeg.org/ - * ffprobe (ID3v2, Musepack, Windows Media and video metadata) - * ffmpeg (Windows Media and video decoding) +### Optional: +* [vorbis-tools](http://www.vorbis.com/) + * `ogginfo` (Ogg Vorbis metadata) + * `oggenc` (Ogg Vorbis encoding) +* [opus-tools](http://opus-codec.org/) + * `opusinfo` (Opus metadata) + * `opusenc` (Opus encoding) + * `opusdec` (Opus decoding) +* [LAME MP3 Encoder](http://lame.sourceforge.net/) + * `lame` (MP3 encoding) +* [FLAC](http://flac.sourceforge.net/) + * `metaflac` (FLAC metadata) +* [Musepack](http://www.musepack.net/) + * `mpcdec` (Musepack decoding) +* [FFmpeg](http://ffmpeg.org/) + * `ffprobe` (ID3v2, Musepack, Windows Media and video metadata) + * `ffmpeg` (Windows Media and video decoding) -================== -Using the software ------------------- +## Using the software -Configuration: --------------- +### Configuration: On first run, AtOM will ask a set of questions to help you create a configuration file. -You can run atom -S at any time to re-run the setup. It will be prefilled with +You can run `atom -S` at any time to re-run the setup. It will be prefilled with your current configuration. If, however, you still want to make changes manually, please read doc/config. There are a lot of comments in the generated config file too. -Preparing data: ---------------- +### Preparing data: Nothing specific needs to be done. You can edit ypur tags, rename files, move them around how you see fit. However, make sure you setup your tag editor to *do* update the files' timestamps: though it was initially plan to make this optional, using checksums or tags, it was abandoned due to the huge amount of IO required. -Running: --------- +### Running: Make sure your configuration is correct by running +``` $ atom -C +``` This will produce a human-readable dump of your current configuration. If all settings are correct, simply run atom with no argument. Go get a beer. Meet some friends. Go to bed. Depending on the size of your collection, the @@ -75,24 +61,24 @@ much faster this time, as only changed data will be treated. If, for whatever reason, you need to force the regeneration of a destination, after changing the quality settings for example, run +``` $ atom -F +``` -Running as a cronjob: ---------------------- -If you want to run AtOM as a cronjob, atom -q will give you a cleaner output, +### Running as a cronjob: +If you want to run AtOM as a cronjob, `atom -q` will give you a cleaner output, more suitable for mail or logfile output. You may also want to limit the size of -each batch with -B . AtOM will not create or update more than - destination files. +each batch with `-B `. AtOM will not create or update more than +`` destination files. For example: +``` #m h dom mon dow command 0 5 * * * atom -B 1000 -q +``` -================= -Technical details ------------------ -I. Source scan --------------- +## Technical details +### I. Source scan After reading its configuration file, AtOM uses find to get a list of all files in the source directory. Each file is checked against the database. If it's already there, and its last @@ -101,25 +87,22 @@ If its mtime has changed, mime-type scan is attempted. It is updated in the database, along with last_seen. If the file is new, its mime-type is scanned, and it is added to the database. -II. Obsolete files ------------------- +### II. Obsolete files Using the last_seen field, AtOM removes from destinations each files which are not present anymore in the source directory. AtOM never touches files not present in its database (unless there is a filename conflict, in which case your file *WILL* be overwritten). If you wish to clear unknown files from your destinations, have a look at toys/cleandestinations. -III. Reading metadata ---------------------- +### III. Reading metadata AtOM then tries to read metadata from each new or changed file. It also re-reads metadata from files scanned with an older version of AtOM, if the parser for that format has changed. The actual data read depends on the format, but at the very least, AtOM should identify the sampling rate, bitrate and number of -channels. Unknown file types are scanned with ffprobe, so you may still have +channels. Unknown file types are scanned with `ffprobe`, so you may still have some luck, depending on your FFmpeg setup. -IV. Task creation ------------------ +### IV. Task creation For every destination files having their last change field different from their corresponding source file entry, we create one or more tasks, to generate or update (overwrite) the destination file. AtOM tries to generate as few tasks as @@ -138,27 +121,20 @@ The steps required for each file depend on the format and destination parameters decoded/resampled file) to 3 (if format can't be decoded using sox and resampling/normalization is required) tasks. -V.1 Running tasks ------------------ -While running tasks, AtOM responds to the following keypresses: -+/- Increase/decrease max-load -q Quit (will skip all following steps) +### V. Running tasks +#### V.1 Running tasks Progress display: -L:/ -W:/ -T:/ (F:) -% (A:s/task) -ETA: +``` +L:/ W:/ T:/ (F:) % (A:s/task) ETA: +``` -V.2 Renaming files ------------------- +#### V.2 Renaming files If rename pattern (or FAT32 compatibility) for one or more destinations has changed, files already transcoded will be renamed. Otherwise, this step is skipped. -VI. Copies ----------- +### VI. Copies During that stage, files which mime-types matched copy_mime-type directives are copied (symlinked where possible) to the destination. When a rename pattern is defined and impacts path, files that are not in the @@ -166,38 +142,31 @@ same directories as files which have been successfully transcoded are ignored, as AtOM cannot guess what the destination path should be. Otherwise, files are copied with their name and path unchanged. -VII. Obsolete files 2 -------------------- +### VII. Obsolete files 2 Whenever a file is transcoded, if it was already present in the database but its name changed, following a rename pattern change, the old file is removed during that stage. -==== -Toys ----- +## Toys AtOM requires a database to function. Now that we have a database containing various information about our media files, why not use it? AtOM comes with a small set of tools in the toys/ directory. These are -documented in toys/README. +documented in `toys/README`. -======================== -Shameless Self Promotion ------------------------- +# Shameless Self Promotion I am the author of free (Creative Commons CC-By-SA) music which you can stream -for free, or buy to get high quality and bonuses from Bandcamp -(http://djblackred.bandcamp.com). If you like electronic music taking its -inspiration from Trance, Drum & Bass, Ambient and (rarely) Free Jazz, please +for free, or buy to get high quality and bonuses from +[Bandcamp](http://djblackred.bandcamp.com). If you like electronic music taking +its inspiration from Trance, Drum & Bass, Ambient and (rarely) Free Jazz, please check it out! Downloads are available in FLAC, Ogg, MP3, and more, and includes the "source code" (sequencer files and the likes) for most tracks. -I am receiving 85% of the money you'll spend, so you won't be feeding some +I am receiving 80% of the money you'll spend, so you won't be feeding some greedy BigCorp producer or distributor. And if you don't like it, you can still spread the word to friends who may like. You can see this as a way to thank me for this piece of code. -===== -Legal ------ +# Legal Some of the format and/or tool names cited above are trademarks belonging to their rightful owners. AtOM and its authors are not linked in any way to those companies or individuals. Said companies do not endorse nor support