fapg - Fast Audio Playlist Generator

fapg [ options ] /path/to/mp3/dir1 [ /path/to/mp3/dir2 ... ]

fapg is a tool to generate list of audio files (Wav, MP2, MP3, Ogg, etc) in various formats (M3U, PLS, HTML, etc). It is very useful if you have a large amount of audio files and you want to quickly and frequently build a playlist.

It is coded in C to be as fast as possible, and does not use any specific audio library (like ID3Lib). This allow you to deploy it faster and easier, and to have better performances since the less informations are loaded. On the other hand, this tool is not (yet) compatible with all the known formats.

-b|--backslash

Replace the '/' with '' in Unix path.

-d|--debug

Display useful messages if the program fails ;)

-f|--format=m3u|pls|html

Choose which format of playlist you want to generate (default is m3u).

-g|--genre=#:#:...

Choose which genres (numerical values only) will be included in the generated playlist (default is all).

-n|--nohardlink

Avoid to parse twice the files because of hardlinks.

-o|--output=/path/to/file.m3u

Choose the name of the playlist file to generate (default behavior is to display on standard output).

-p|--prefix=/the/prefix

Replace the Unix path with another string (useful to give a Samba path for example).

-r|--recursive

Recursively read the subdirectories.

-w|--windows

Replace all Unix characters with Windows characters.

-x|--exclude=#:#:...

Choose which genres (numerical values only) will be excluded in the generated playlist (default is none).

Generate a PLS playlist for an album: fapg --format=pls --output=~/path/to/album/list.pls ~/path/to/album You have a file server using Samba which shares a large amount of audio files for Windows powered computers using Winamp. The directory on the server containing the files is /samba/mp3 and is visible on the Windows network as \\\\server\\mp3 : fapg --backslash --output=/samba/mp3/list.m3u --prefix='\\\\server\\mp3\\' --recursive --windows /samba/mp3 An HTML playlist for an album: fapg --output=fapg.html ~/path/to/album

A playlist that contains all your classical tracks may receive the genres to include (or exclude) in one or multiple portions fapg --genre=32:105 --genre=106:104:103 /path/to/all/music

Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com>, http://royale.zerezo.com/fapg/. Manpage by Thomas Kappler <thomas.kappler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>.