mbrew - A Package Manager for Music.
mbrew command [-h] [args]
MBrew (MusicBrew) is a combination of Spotify and Homebrew (http://brew.sh/). Like a package manager for software but for music. It's made to use it via comand-line. You can install all songs by a specified band, for example from ABBA via music install ABBA. The .mp3 files will be downloaded from a central server to your local music collection. The search acts like on a traditional package manager, for example via music search AC/DC. Like on Homebrew, each song file gets a formula/meta file. These files will be searched locally when the search command is used. On music update all meta files will be updated through Git. The music upgrade command is used to upgrade all existing artists. New songs will be downloaded.
The preferred method of installation is via RubyGems.org:
https://rubygems.org/gems/mbrew
gem install mbrew
or via Gemfile:
gem 'mbrew', '~>0.1.0'
Use it in your sources:
require 'mbrew'
clone <url> [<dir>]Clone a library. url is the base HTTP URL where the library is located. dir (optional) is the destination directory where the cloned library should be placed locally.
init [<dir>]Create a new library. Typically you do this in your main collection. dir (optional, default: current working directory) is the destination directory. A .mbrew directory will be created under the destination directory.
pushThis function is currently not available. You need to upload the .mbrew directory manually to a server.
add [-R] <files...>Add new files to your library. files... could be one or more files or one or more directories. -R adds directories recursively. Without -R only .mp3 files in the first level will be added.
commitLike on Git, after adding files you need to commit the changes.
statusLike on Git, list the current added staging changes.
list [-f]List all artists available by the current index.
-f: List all files available by the current index.
info <artists...>Show informations about specified artists.
search <pattern>Search for an artist. The index
install <artists...>Download and install all .mp3 files from one or more specified artists.
uninstall <artists...>Remove installed artists.
updateThis will update the index (Git) directory and its meta files.
upgradeInstall all new songs from previously installed artists. Maybe you would like to update your local index before installing new songs.
All files appropriated to a MBrew library are located under .mbrew directory. This directory will be created by mbrew init or mbrew clone.
In the data directory all encrypted copies of the original .mp3 files are stored.
The index directory contains a Git repository which contains Index Files.
Each index file contain informations (paths, ID3 tags) about the original .mp3 file.
This is what the structure of a MBrew library looks like:
$ tree .mbrew/
.mbrew/
|-- config.yml
|-- data
| \-- directories...
|-- index
| \-- directories...
|-- installed.yml
\-- tmp
Since it's not legal in most of the countries on planet earth to copy and distribute copyright protected music it's highly recommended to encrypt the .mp3 files. This will be done with the best encryption software ever been made: GnuPG. Beside the aspect of the copyright there is also the aspect to encrypt your files when using blank HTTP (instead of HTTPS).
SECURITY NOTE: In the current version the files will be encrypted symmetric with passphrase supersecret2015. Of course this isn't the security we want for this tool, but better than nothing. In further versions (>= 1.0.0) asymmetric encryption should be enabled.
THIS SOFTWARE IS IN DEVELOPMENT STAGE. IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED DO USE IT IN PRODUCTION.
Version < 1.0.0 indicates that the version is unstable and under development. More information on http://semver.org/.
In all examples, assumed that your collection looks something like this:
$ tree ~/Music
~/Music
|-- Artists
| |-- Artist1
| | \-- .mp3 files...
| |-- Artist2
| | \-- .mp3 files...
| |-- Artist3
| | \-- .mp3 files...
| \-- Artist4
| \-- .mp3 files...
|-- CDs
\-- iTunes
You can init a new library in ~/Music with this ways:
mbrew init ~/Musiccd ~/Music; mbrew initAfter init, you need to add files. Assumed that you first cd ~/Music.
mbrew add Artist/Artist1mbrew add Artist/Artist1/Song1.mp3cd Artist/Artist1; mbrew add Song1.mp3In this example we want to create a library on PC A and clone it to PC B.
First, you need to push your .mbrew directory from PC A to a HTTP server. In this example we assume that you upload the .mbrew directory to http://example.com/musiclib. After done you can clone the library on PC B:
cd ~/Music
mbrew clone http://example.com/musiclib lib
cd lib
mbrew install Artist2 Artist3
This will download and install new songs only from installed artists. Non-installed artists will be untouched.
mbrew update
mbrew upgrade
MBrew is written in Ruby and depends on GPG and Git. Report bugs to the GitHub issues tracker.
Copyright (C) 2015 Christian Mayer http://fox21.at
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.