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#1 2008-07-30 01:06:08

prasetyams
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Create a thumbnail index of music library

My music library is organized in this (generic) manner: ~/music/artists/albums. I want to show my entire library in a HTML format, which resides in ~/music, let's call it library.html. I want the html file to contain the info as follows:

<div class="loop1">
<h3>the_artist</h3>
<div class="loop2">
<h4>the_album</h4>
<img src="the_folder.jpg" />
</div>
</div>

Just a rough script. What I want to know is, is there a way to parse the directory structure and the files inside them and generate a html file that reflects the actual folder organization? For example, if I have these folders (in each of the "albums" folder, there's a folder.jpg):

music/
--bond
----born
----classified
----shine

then the script would generate:

<div class="loop1">
<h3>bond</h3>
<div class="loop2">
<h4>born</h4>
<img src="bond/born/folder.jpg" />
</div>
<div class="loop2">
<h4>classified</h4>
<img src="bond/classified/folder.jpg" />
</div>
<div class="loop2">
<h4>shine</h4>
<img src="bond/shine/folder.jpg" />
</div>
</div>

The path to the .jpg would be relative to the html file. I hope you understand what I mean, with bad english and all, and any help is appreciated. If you have any question, please ask. Thank you.


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#2 2008-07-30 03:41:12

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

Were you after help writing the script, or generating the thumbnail? smile

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#3 2008-07-30 07:28:16

prasetyams
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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

Well, both. The point is to generate a html files that lists the folder names (and subfolders), and shows <img> tag that points to a folder.jpg of the corresponding subfolders. And as of how to achieve that, I still don't know. Any shed of light? How to do this with a script? Manually entering the artis/album/folder.jpg entries would be very daunting task since I currently have a quite large library.

For an example, i have uploaded a "test" folder with the html file, that pretty much shows what I mean. It's here on box.net.

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#4 2008-07-30 08:25:32

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

Something like this? Works on your test file you uploaded.

Just change START_DIR and OUTPUT_FILE to something appropriate.

Now I must go cook dinner for the missus! hmm

#!/bin/bash

function doArtist() {
    # Loops through all the albums in the directory passed, then calls doAlbum
    ARTIST=$1
    echo "<p>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
    echo " <h1>Artist: ${ARTIST}</h1>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
    for ALBUM_DIR in $(${LS} ${START_DIR}${ARTIST}) ; do
        echo "   Found album ${ALBUM_DIR}... Processing..."
        doAlbum $ALBUM_DIR
    done
    echo "</p>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
    echo "" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
}

function doAlbum() {
    # Writes album and image (if present) tags to HTML file
    ALBUM=$1
    echo "  <h2>Album: ${ALBUM}</h2>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
    if [ -f "${START_DIR}${ARTIST_DIR}/${ALBUM}/folder.jpg" ] ; then
        echo "      Writing image tag"
        echo "   <img src='${ARTIST_DIR}/${ALBUM}/folder.jpg'>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
    fi
}

# Config Vars
START_DIR='/home/user/Music/'        # Make sure it has a trailing slash
OUTPUT_FILE='library.html'

# Binaries
LS='/bin/ls'
CAT='/bin/cat'

# Create or Empty the output file
OUTPUT_FILE=${START_DIR}${OUTPUT_FILE}
echo -n "Creating $OUTPUT_FILE... "
$CAT /dev/null > $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "<html>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "<head>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "</head>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "<body>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "Done"

# Need to change bash's IFS variable so the for loops will
# handle files and directories with spaces in their name.
IFS="
"

# Start looping through our directories
for ARTIST_DIR in $(${LS} $START_DIR) ; do
    if [ -d "$START_DIR$ARTIST_DIR" ] ; then
        # This is a directory of an artist
        echo "Found artist ${ARTIST_DIR}... Procesing..."
        doArtist $ARTIST_DIR
    fi
done

# Close off the HTML
echo "</body>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "</html>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE

exit 0

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#5 2008-07-30 08:35:40

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

I planed a fews ago to code something similar like this in python. Only difference is to keep a sqlite db up to date and generate some html pages from it. With ID3 tags, etc


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#6 2008-07-30 09:04:26

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

@fukawi2: It works. There's a small glitch with apostrophes on folder names though, I need to use %27 in place of apostrophes in the resulting html file. Still wondering how to do that in the script (detect if there's an apostrophe and replace it with %27). I'm learning the script now, and will post the result. Thanks a bunch.

@nesrecar: That would be cool, back in Windows world I used to use iTunes to print albums list.

Last edited by prasetyams (2008-07-30 09:39:40)


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#7 2008-07-30 09:41:38

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

Bash string substitution:

VARIABLE=${VARIABLE/\'/%27}

Note the ' is escaped with a back slash. Not sure if that's required, I assume it is. You might need to escape the % too maybe?

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#8 2008-07-31 01:44:34

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

Um, how to implement the Bash string subst? hmm

Anyway, the result so far is here.

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#9 2008-07-31 03:58:29

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html
Look at the "Substring Replacment" section (above 9.2.1 near the bottom)

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#10 2008-07-31 04:41:46

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

Okay, I learn a bit. One of the albums contains two apostrophes, so I end up replacing any ' found in the string, just in case. I replaced %27 with its equivalent HTML charset (can't display it here), it works well.

${ALBUM//\'/CHARSET}

Thanks a lot for the help. smile.

Last edited by prasetyams (2008-07-31 04:43:41)


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#11 2008-07-31 05:07:07

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Re: Create a thumbnail index of music library

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