Output file encoding

[rubisco57]

I like this project!
I was not able to figure out how to control FFmpeg's audio encoding (bit rate, file type).
Could the necessary arguments be added in the future?

[crisbal]

Hey, thanks for the interest. Right now we are using a wrapper library for FFMpeg, so there is not much customization.

There was a fork by another user (https://github.com/rgamici/Album-Splitter/commit/da5df0df62f23bc84db7f3462e6a118e7861459b) that used raw FFMpeg command but he never proposed a merge and right now the fork is outdated. If you want you could try the fork, update it and create a merge request, otherwise I will get to this as soon as I have some time.

[aoconnor-ufl]

#33 should enable flac output

[Vorlent]

#33 should enable flac output

That feature is gone in the latest version. I don't see the --format flag in --help. Right now it defaults to wav which I convert manually to mp3. I used this project a in may and got mp3 by default.

[crisbal]

Hello @Vorlent

Right now the behavior is to respect the format of the input because conversion is an "hard" task to get right (there are many parameters, rules and possibilities), for example From WAV->MP3 I might need to forcefully choose a bitrate or other compression parameters that some users might not like, so it is better to just copy over the audio format and let the conversion up for some other tools, more suitable for this.

In general this was discussed in #42 and there was proposed a simple command to do WAV to MP3 conversion.

find . -iname "*.wav" -exec lame -V0 {} \;

I agree that the README should be a bit more clear about this.

[nicolaasjan]

There was a fork by another user (https://github.com/rgamici/Album-Splitter/commit/da5df0df62f23bc84db7f3462e6a118e7861459b) that used raw FFMpeg command but he never proposed a merge and right now the fork is outdated.

This repo is now gone...

[crisbal]

There was a fork by another user (https://github.com/rgamici/Album-Splitter/commit/da5df0df62f23bc84db7f3462e6a118e7861459b) that used raw FFMpeg command but he never proposed a merge and right now the fork is outdated.

This repo is now gone...

Hello @nicolaasjan

As I mentioned below, this fork should not be necessary anymore. My script was updated to use for the output the same encoding/format/specifications as the source file. Any later post-processing on the output files (for example changing wav to mp3, or changing the bitrate or whatever else), you must do it with ffmpeg commands directly on the output files.

Let me know if this answer your problem.

[crisbal]

I have clarified this in the README, together with some examples. This issue can be closed if it is all clear on your side @nicolaasjan

https://github.com/crisbal/album-splitter#output-format

[nicolaasjan]

I have clarified this in the README, together with some examples. This issue can be closed if it is all clear on your side @nicolaasjan

https://github.com/crisbal/album-splitter#output-format

Thanks!
I'm quite comfortable with using Ffmpeg. 🙂

Feel free to close it, if it's OK with @rubisco57.

Sidenote:
I had two other issues, but I think one it the same as #30.
(test video here)
File names ended up like e.g. Olivia Newton-JohnMagic.wav.
It should be 01 - Olivia Newton-John - Magic.wav.

And the other is, that tracks are not placed in the right order, but instead alphabetically...
See also these Reddit comments.

[crisbal]

@nicolaasjan you are absolutely right. I can push a fix for this now. I will ping you when you can try again.

[crisbal]

@nicolaasjan would you prefer the track number to be assigned arbitrarily by the script or to be pulled from the .txt file?

In your case, do you want Olivia Newton-John - Magic to be 01 (assigned automatically) or 02 (pulled from the txt)?

01 - Blondie - Call me (BLOQUEADA / BLOCKED)
02 - Olivia Newton-John - Magic - [00:00]
03 - Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - [04:28]

[nicolaasjan]

would you prefer the track number to be assigned arbitrarily by the script or to be pulled from the .txt file?

In your case, do you want Olivia Newton-John - Magic to be 01 (assigned automatically) or 02 (pulled from the txt)?

Well, in this particular case , I edited the text file, because 01 was blocked and it seemed logical to start with 01. 😀️

[crisbal]

@nicolaasjan I have updated the tool to include the track number on the filenames now. Sorry it took a while :)

[nicolaasjan]

@nicolaasjan I have updated the tool to include the track number on the filenames now. Sorry it took a while :)

👍️❤️
However, the -'s in the filenames in the case of video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUNipoTGhMc were still omitted, e.g.:
01 Olivia Newton-JohnMagic.wav.
I would prefer 01 - Olivia Newton-John - Magic.wav.
Guess I could do this manually afterwards, if it's to difficult to implement.

Furthermore, good that you now use yt-dlp. 👍️

However, pip installed the Release version:
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.09.01 [5d7c7d656]
So in my case it replaced my own self-compiled version from master, which I have in /usr/local/bin. 😀️
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.09.21 [f7c5a5e96] (zip)

[crisbal]

Right @nicolaasjan , I will open a new issue for this problem you mention. It is not particularly difficult to implement, I will need to replace some old code that I don't recognize anymore (it was written years ago) with some new code that handle these cases well.

In terms of yt-dlp, pip will fetch the latest stable version on pypi.org, if you want always want to use master you can replace yt-dlp in setup.cfg with git+https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git@master. This should work, and whenever you do pip install --upgrade . it will pull the latest version.

Anyway I have also setup a periodic check that will inform me if something breaks, so I can stay up to date with changes to yt-dlp.

[nicolaasjan]

In terms of yt-dlp, pip will fetch the latest stable version on pypi.org, if you want always want to use master you can replace yt-dlp in setup.cfg with git+https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git@master. This should work, and whenever you do pip install --upgrade . it will pull the latest version.

I had to do it like this:

python -m pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git@master
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  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git /tmp/pip-req-build-c_2rio5w
  Resolved https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git to commit 5c8b2ee9ecf8773eb463b4ae218f8313a6626b2f
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Building wheels for collected packages: yt-dlp
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Successfully installed brotli-1.0.9 certifi-2022.9.14 mutagen-1.45.1 pycryptodomex-3.15.0 websockets-10.3 yt-dlp-2022.9.1

With only --upgrade it said that yt-dlp-2022.9.1 was already installed ( the version number is not updated in the source).