samplesort.sh

samplesort.sh
Website:https://gist.github.com/coderof...
Description:automatic audio sample-tagging for lazy artists: converts audiosample-directories into symbolically linked trees sorted on tags (kick/hihat/etc)
Author:coderofsalvation

Automatic audio sample-tagging for lazy artists. This bash-script converts audiosample-directories into symbolically linked trees sorted on tags (kick/hihat/etc)

The tags are based on wildcards. For example, in the script a tag like:

 tags["clap"]="clap|klapp|clp"

will create a directory 'clap' which creates symlinks to all files which filename match 'clap' 'klapp' or 'clp'. Basically this is what most people do manually when they use sample-organizers..but with this script it goes automatically.

Why is this handy and why is this made? The author was maintaining huge amount of samples, and wasnt satisfied with the sample-organizer applications. They all had one thing in common: it is labourous to keep your directories up to date with the application's tag-based database.

So, as with many things in life…a simple bashscript + a cronjob can do magic.

WARNING: not for the fainthearted, bit knowledge about bash is required.

apps/all/samplesort_converts_audiosampledirectories_into_symbolically_lin.txt · Last modified: 2015/02/07 04:25 by j_e_f_f_g