Vinyl2Digital - PyPi Package

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Vinyl2Digital is a Python3 Pip Package for batch rendering multiple audio files using the Audacity mod-script-pipe.

Install with pip install vinyl2digital

Update with pip install --upgrade vinyl2digital

Table of content

• Installation
• Setup
• All Flags
• Example Use Cases
• Development

Installation

• Install the package with this command:

pip install vinyl2digital

Setup

• Enable mod-script-pipe in Audacity

• Launch Audacity from your terminal
  • Windows Command Prompt Admin
    • Navigate to Audacity executable location cd C:\Program Files\Audacity>
    • Launch Audacity: start audacity.exe
  • Mac/Linux: open -a Audacity
• Record your audio and splice each track into its own selection (place cursor and press Ctrl+i)

* Highlight any selected region and choose File->Export->Export Selected Audio, these quality options will be what vinyl2digital uses. So if you want 24 bit FLAC files make sure that option is set in this window.

* Move your cursor to be at the start of your recording * While Audacity is open, run the vinyl2digital python package with the `-t` flag to test your connection to the Audacity mod-script-pipe.

python -m vinyl2digital -t

• You should now be able to use the vinyl2digital package from the command line to connect with Audacity and batch render multiple audio files one after the other.

Flags

Help

• -h
  • View the help page
• -t
  • Test your connection to the Audacity mod-script-pipe

Input

• -i discogs https://www.discogs.com/master/14720
  • Take a Discogs URL as input for determining how may audio files to export and what metadata to use
• -i 12
  • Export 12 tracks using default filenames

Output Audio Format

• -f flac
  • Export selections as flac audio files
• -f mp3
  • Export selections as mp3 audio files

Output

• -o "E:\martinradio\rips\vinyl\NewEnglandTeenScene"
  • Set filepath output location

Examples

• Here are some example commands for vinyl2digital on Win10 command prompt:

• Export tracks as flac using a Discogs URL

python -m vinyl2digital -i discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/2019460-Various-The-New-England-Teen-Scene -f flac -o "E:\martinradio\rips\vinyl\NewEnglandTeenScene" 

• Export 5 tracks as mp3 using default filenames

python -m vinyl2digital -i 5 -f mp3 -o "E:\martinradio\rips\vinyl\NewEnglandTeenScene" 

Development

• In order to develop and test this code locally clone this github repo:

git clone https://github.com/MartinBarker/vinyl2digital.git

• Install the necessary packages: os, sys, requests, json, time, re
• Run locally: python3 "vinyl2digital/vinyl2digital/__init__.py" -h

Releasing a new version:

• Change package version number (setup.py)

$ python -m pip install --upgrade build
$ python -m build

• This will create the dist/ folder with a new packaged tar

python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
pip3 install twine
python3 -m twine upload dist/*