FAPG(1) User Manuals FAPG(1)NAMEfapg - Fast Audio Playlist Generator
SYNOPSISfapg [ options ] /path/to/mp3/dir1 [ /path/to/mp3/dir2 ... ]
DESCRIPTIONfapg is a tool to generate list of audio files (Wav, MP2, MP3, Ogg,
etc) in various formats (M3U, PLS, XSPF, HTML, RSS, 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 spe‐
cific 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.
OPTIONS
-b|--backslash
Replace the '/' with '\' in Unix path.
-d|--debug
Display useful messages if the program fails ;)
-f|--format=m3u|pls|xspf|html|rss|pla|txx
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 behav‐
ior 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).
-c|--command=<intern|...>
External binary or script that produces additional fields for
RSS feeds (slow).
-s|--stdin
Read filenames and/or directories from standard input instead of
command line.
EXAMPLES
Generate a PLS playlist for an album: fapg --format=pls --out‐
put=~/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 : cd /samba/mp3 && fapg--backslash --out‐
put=/samba/mp3/list.m3u --prefix='\\server\mp3\' --recursive--windows
./
An HTML playlist for an album: fapg --output=fapg.html ~/path/to/album
A playlist that contains all your classical tracks may receive the gen‐
res to include (or exclude) in one or multiple portions fapg
--genre=32:105 --genre=106:104:103 /path/to/all/music
Generate a podcasting XML file using an external program rss.sh to gen‐
erate a detailed description: fapg --output=dir.xml -f rss -c
/usr/local/bin/rss.sh -r --prefix=http://thisserver/basedir path/to/mp3
Generate a playlist that will work on a Sansa e200 series MP3 player:
fapg-f pla -o /path/to/playlist.pla /path/to/all/music
if command starts with intern the build-in description
(Author,Title,Link) is generated. Please note that in all given direc‐
tories ( and in ...basedir/xml ) files called podcast.jpg are refer‐
enced. Many header fields are set to defaults using environment vari‐
ables like LOGNAME or LANG.
AUTHOR
Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com>, http://royale.zerezo.com/fapg/.
Manpage by Thomas Kappler <thomas.kappler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>.
Linux JANUARY 2007 FAPG(1)
