Reference

fadecut(1)

NAME

fadecut - Toolset to rip audiostreams, cut, fade in/out and tag the resulting audiofiles

SYNOPSIS

fadecut -p <profile> [ OPTIONS ]

DESCRIPTION

fadecut is a script to rip audio files from a livestream (using stream- ripper) and to process them automatically. Beginning and ending fo the audio files will be cut and faded in/out. So logos and advertising of radio stations will be automatically removed.

In streaming mode fadecut is ripping audio files using streamripper. The downloaded audio files are cutted using silence detection and then faded in and out. Subsequently, the files are encoded to either ogg or mp3 and tagged with tags (title, artist, genre and comment provided).

In file mode fadecut is just processing already ripped audio files.

An audio file which has already been processed is detected and will not be processed again. Not desired songs can be stored in a separate directory. This files are not processed anymore too.

FOLDERS

fadecut is working with some standard folders. You may change them in your profile or fadecutrc

done/ here you put all your songs which were already processed by fadecut and which you want to keep. See also new/ folder.

dontlike/ in this folder you may put songs which you don’t like. Fadecut is checking this folder before it is processing new files in the working folder. Null size files are ok.

error/ whenever an error occurs while fadecut is processing a file, that file is moved to the error folder for later examining.

incomplete/ this folder is created by streamripper. All not fully ripped songs are saved here.

new/ processed songs are going here. Usually you may rip and process files with fadecut, they are going in to new/ folder, you listen to them and put good songs to the done/ folder.

orig/ if you want to keep the original file (which is ripped by stream-ripper), you may use the -k option. fadecut is putting the ripped files untouched into that folder.

OPTIONS

-c Create a new profile

-e Edit an existing profile

-l list all existing profiles

-i optional input

-o optional output

-k optional to keep the untouched original song in the /orig folder

-d Debug: -d 0|1|2|3 (level 0 is standard, -d without number is like 1)

-h Show this message

-p Profile

-q Quiet

-r Stream (and rip), start streamripper

-t add Timestamp to the Filename

-v Verbose

VARIABLES

URL to stream

STREAM_URL="http://streamurl"

Preferred destination fileformat. (opus/ogg/mp3)

ENCODING=ogg

Processed files will get the above genre.

GENRE="SwissPop"

Processed files will get the above comment.

COMMENT="Radio Swiss Pop"

Cut seconds off the file in the beginning.

TRIM_BEGIN=0

Cut seconds off the file at the end.

TRIM_END=0

Fade in for seconds.

FADE_IN=1

Fade out for seconds.

FADE_OUT=4

Set the user-agent used by streamripper

USER_AGENT="Streamripper/1.x"

EXAMPLES

Create a new ripping profile

fadecut -c test

Edit/update profile test

fadecut -e test

Rip, cut and fade in-/out with profile test

fadecut -p test -r

Only cut and fade in-/out without ripping from livestream

fadecut -p test

SEE ALSO

id3v2(1), oggenc(1), opusenc(1), sox(1), streamripper(1), lame(1)

FILES

~/.fadecut/fadecutrc is the main fadecut configuration file, executed with every start of fadecut.

Content of fadecutrc # which files to work on FILES=*.mp3

# target format [ogg/mp3]
ENCODING=mp3
# --- Defaults for the profiles ---
# trim n seconds at beginning
TRIM_BEGIN=0
# trim n seconds at end of song
TRIM_END=0
# seconds to fade in
FADE_IN=0
# seconds to fade out
FADE_OUT=0
# --- Directories ---
# main directory of fadecut
PWD=$(pwd)
# where to write logfiles
LOGDIR=/tmp
# profiledir
PROFILEDIR="$HOME/.fadecut"
# workdir
WORKDIR="$PWD"
# where to put fadecut'ted files
OUTPUTDIR="$PWD/new"
# where to put original files
ORIGDIR="$PWD/orig"
# here the user puts finished files, which are 
# tested and listened
DONEDIR="$PWD/done"
# here are songs we don't like
DONTLIKEDIR="$PWD/dontlike"
# files had an error
ERRORDIR="$PWD/error"
# here to put temporary files
TMPDIR=/tmp
# --- Other options ---
# enqueue to rhythmbox or vlc
ENQUEUE=0
# keep or don't keep original files
KEEPORIG=1
# debug level 0-3
DEBUG=0
# verbosity level
VERBOSE=1
# loop interval in seconds
LOOP_INTERVAL=10
# restart interval streamripper
RESTART_STREAMRIPPER_INTERVAL=900
# start streamripper [0/1]
STREAMRIPPER_START=0
# streamripper useragent
USER_AGENT="Streamripper/1.x"
# streamripper options
STREAMRIPPER_OPTS="-o always -T"

~/.fadecut/statslog.csv is the statistics file.

Contains a table of processed files
Format:
Date dd.mm.yyyy;Time hh:mm:ss;Artist;Songtitle;Genre;profile;fadecut-task;filename
Example:
09.05.2014;10:14:54;Androcell;Hindu Kush;Lounge;alounge;processing;androcell_-_hindu_kush.ogg

~/.fadecut/profiles is the folder where all profiles are located.

To create a profile file

    fadecut -c myradiostation

Settings in the profile file

    # url to the radio stream:
    STREAM_URL="http://streamurl"
# mp3-genre which will be written to the downloaded mp3-files
    GENRE="Pop"
# comment which will be written to the downloaded mp3-files
    COMMENT="Radio station comment"
# how many seconds to fade in the song  
    FADE_IN=1
# how many seconds to fade out the song 
    FADE_OUT=4
# how many seconds to cut from the beginning of the song
TRIM_BEGIN=0
# how many seconds to cut at the end of the song
TRIM_END=0

RESOURCES

fadecut git website: https://github.com/fadecut/fadecut

AUTHORS

Martin Gafner, Marco Balmer.

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