ADI64 feat. n0stradamus

Your MP3-Player has got 60 Mb left, but you can’t decide which songs to put on it?

You want to listen across your fresh new music titles, but you don’t have the time or space to copy them all to your player?

If so, RndMp3Copy will help you.

Originally, this tool was suppaman2′s idea (see Gulli-board post (German) here), but I (and several others) had a problem with it: It was dead slow.

That was probably the case because his version was scripted in AutoIt3, which is really neat for hacking things like this together, but unfortunately is rather slow. So it wasn’t really practicable to let this tool handle your complete music library.

I recoded the application in C++ using the boost::filesystem library and now it’s running like a greased lightning!

 

Download

RndMp3Copy Windows with GUI

RndMp3Copy Windows without GUI

RndMp3Copy source code

RndMp3Copy Autoit GUI source code

RndMp3Copy GTK+ GUI source code

Range of functions / usage

If you are happy using the GUI, you don’t need to read this, because the GUI will do this for you.

RndMp3Copy is completely driven by parameters and doesn’t need any runtime-interaction, thus it can be easily executed as a batch script or cronjob.

-i specifies the input music directory. You can specify more than one input directory, but you have to set an individual -i for each.

-o sets the output directory (or device, if it can be accessed with a regular path [meaning, you can only use MTP devices if you mount them as a normal drive]).

-s sets the desired amount of music in megabytes, so -s 46.7 means 46 megabytes and 700 kilobytes.
You can also fill the complete device (if you have enough music to fill it up, of course) by passing “all” instead of a number.

-d specifies the naming convention for output files:

• 0: output/file.ext (default)
• 1: output/relative/path/file.ext
• 2: output/relative-path-file.ext

-l sets a so-called used-list, which means that songs mentioned in this file will be skipped. If this option is set, RndMp3Copy will create entries for every song that was copied during this process. This function is useful for example when you fill your player on a daily basis and don’t want to hear songs that you had on your player the day before.

-f sets the file formats that will be scanned for. If no file format is given, RndMp3Copy will only look for .mp3 files. With this option, you could even use RndMp3Copy to copy random e-books, videos or whatever.

You can use regular expressions to filter the data. -in specifies a pattern that must be matched, -ex specifies a pattern that must not be matched.

The switch -m sets that files won’t be copied, but moved instead.

-w will order RndMp3Copy not to end immediately after finishing, but rather wait for the user to press any key. This should only be useful for debugging / analysis purposes.

-v will enable debug output (must not be last option). If you encounter crashes or really odd behaviour, please enable this option, pipe RndMp3Copy’s output to a file and sed this to me with a brief description of what happened.

 

An example call:

RndMp3Copy -i ~/music/ -i /media/cdrom/music/soundtrack/ -o /media/mp3player/ -s 128 -f mp3,wma,ogg,flac -ex “(Tokio.?Hotel)” -w

This will copy about 128 mb mp3-, wma-, ogg- and flac-songs, that don’t contain the words “Tokio” and “Hotel” from two different sources to a mobile player and then waits for the user to press return.

 

GUI

I will deliver separate GUIs for a practical reason:

The AutoIt3-GUI used for Windows won’t work on other OSs (I think they will work using wine, though) and the GTK+ gui theoretically works on Windows, but you need to download about 100mb runtime files to get it to work.

Both GUIs only serve the purpose of generating a call with the before mentioned parameters, running the tool and showing you the text output.

Linux-Gui

The Linux-GUI bases on Glade and GTKmm / GTK+. If you have a Gnome-Desktop, you should already have these installed.

Windows-Gui

The AutoIt3-GUI should run out-of-the-box on most Windows versions. It’s supplied in the Windows package.

However, if you really want to use the GTK-GUI on Windows, you can download the sources and compile it on Windows.

ToDo-list

• Parse the complete output in GUI and show progress there

Changelog:

1.6.1

• RndMp3Copy doesn’t choke on files with ‘weird’ special characters, they will be skipped. (A real fix depends on the boost::filesystem-backend, because currently, it fails to handle certain characters…)
• Files can now also be moved instead of copied
• RegEx-Fix (thanks to ronubasg!)

1.6.0

• Code completely restructured and rewritten some parts
• Scanning directories now got a real boost – up to 9x the speed of the older version!
• You can completely fill the target device by passing -s all.

1.5.3

• RndMp3Copy now gives you a small summary
• I reformulated parts of the output to be easier to understand
• Fixed a bug in the Windows-GUI

1.5.2

• Implemented used-list
• Minor fixes
• Linux-GUI finished
• Restructured Windows- and Linux-GUIs

1.5.1

• Shuffling songs is more performant and gives “more random” results

1.5

• Ability to filter with regular expressions
• Corrupt files are skipped and don’t cause a crash

1.4

• Already existing files in the target directory are skipped now
• If one file fails to copy, it will be skipped and doesn’t cancel the whole copy process

• Finally a random seed *cough*
• Small code fixes

1.3.2

• Introduced -w parameter and fixed the -d parameter

1.3.1

• Better output
• minor fixes

1.3

• Output file naming convention using -d parameter

1.2

• Fixes

1.1

• You can pass multiple input directories
• Handling of different file types

1.0

• First release