choffm / mpd-ps

MPD Playlist Synchronizer: A small python tool with numerous features, which copies the audio files in the current MPD playlist to a target directory.

mpd-ps

MPD Playlist Synchronizer: A small python tool with numerous features, which copies the audio files from the current MPD playlist to a target directory, optionally transcoding large files to opus, ogg vorbis or mp3.

Dependencies:

• Python 3
• python-mpd2 (https://github.com/Mic92/python-mpd2)
• Optional for any transcoding: python-mutagen, ffmpeg with libvorbis / libopus / libmp3lame support

Features:

• Incrementally syncs the current MPC playlist with a target directory / device
• Optionally deletes files which were removed from MPD playlist
• Optionally syncs album art
• Optionally multi-threaded transcoding from FLAC, MP4 (.m4a) and MP3 to ogg vorbis, opus or lame mp3 using ffmpeg
• Optionally bitrate dependend lossy to lossy transcoding, configurable separately for MP3 and M4A
• Configuration via config file

Usage:

mpd-ps is controlled by mpd-ps.conf. An example file is included and must be placed either in $HOME/.config/mpd-ps/mpd-ps.conf respectively %APPDATA%\mpd-ps\mpd-ps.conf. Placing the config file in the same folder as the python script deactivates the config file in the config / APPDATA folder.

At least the source (src) and destination (dst) folder must be specified, all other options are optional. By default, FLAC files are transcoded to opus at 96kbit/s, lossy files are copied. See the packaged config file for other default values.

The threshold values define the lowest bitrate in bit/sec at which mp3/m4a files are not transcoded (if lossy transcoding is exlpicitely enabled).