mlc/README.md

MLC - Music Library Compiler

This is a program to compile your local lossless music library to lossy formats

Prerequisites

• flac
• lame
• jpeg
• taglib

Building

$ git clone https://git.macaw.me/blue/mlc
$ cd mlc
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build .

Usage

Just to compile lossless library to lossy you can use this command assuming you are in the same directory you have just built MLC:

./mlc path/to/lossless/library path/to/store/lossy/library

There are more ways to use MLC, please refer to help for more options:

$ ./mlc help
# or
$ ./mlc --help
#
# or
$ ./mlc -h

MLC has a way to configure conversion process, it will generate global for you user config on the first launch. It will be located in ~/.config/mlc.conf and MLC will notify you when it's generated.

You can also make local configs for each directory you launch mlc from.

To output the default config run the following, assuming you are in the same directory you have just built MLC:

$ ./mlc config

To use non default config run the following, assuming you are in the same directory you have just built MLC:

$ ./mlc path/to/lossless/library path/to/store/lossy/library -c path/to/config/file

About

For now the program is very primitive, it only works to convert .flac files (it trusts the suffix) to .mp3. I'm planing to add more lossy formats first then, may be, more lossless.

MLC keeps file structure, copies all the non .flac files, tries to adapt some .flac (vorbis) tags to id3v1 and id3v2 of destination .mp3 file. You can set up output format and quality and which kind of files should it skip in the config.

By default MLC runs on as many threads as your system can provide to speed up conversion process. You can set up correct amount of threads in the config.