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72 lines
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# MLC - Music Library Compiler
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[](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mlc/)
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This is a program to compile your local lossless music library to lossy formats
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### Prerequisites
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- flac
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- lame
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- jpeg
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- taglib
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### Building
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```sh
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$ git clone https://git.macaw.me/blue/mlc
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$ cd mlc
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$ mkdir build
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$ cd build
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$ cmake ..
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$ cmake --build .
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```
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### Usage
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Just to compile lossless library to lossy you can use this command
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assuming you are in the same directory you have just built `MLC`:
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```
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./mlc path/to/lossless/library path/to/store/lossy/library
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```
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There are more ways to use `MLC`, please refer to help for more options:
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```sh
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$ ./mlc help
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# or
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$ ./mlc --help
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#
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# or
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$ ./mlc -h
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```
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`MLC` has a way to configure conversion process, it will generate global for you user config on the first launch.
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It will be located in `~/.config/mlc.conf` and `MLC` will notify you when it's generated.
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You can also make local configs for each directory you launch mlc from.
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To output the default config run the following, assuming you are in the same directory you have just built `MLC`:
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```sh
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$ ./mlc config
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```
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To use non default config run the following, assuming you are in the same directory you have just built `MLC`:
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```sh
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$ ./mlc path/to/lossless/library path/to/store/lossy/library -c path/to/config/file
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```
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### About
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For now the program is very primitive, it only works to convert `.flac` files (it trusts the suffix) to `.mp3`.
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I'm planing to add more lossy formats first then, may be, more lossless.
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`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.
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You can set up output format and quality and which kind of files should it skip in the config.
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By default `MLC` runs on as many threads as your system can provide to speed up conversion process.
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You can set up correct amount of threads in the config.
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