Python Scripts to record music

Useful scripts to record music from the audio output (headphones). Can be used to record streamed music. Automatic track seperation by detecting silence at end of track.

Can be used e.g. to record a Deezer playlist.

• create a Deezer Playlist
• Apply a copy&paste on the website and save the result in a file (foo.txt)
• remove the first 30 ( or so) lines, until you only have lines as

Title Artist Album Duration time since added to playlist

e.g.

False Awakening Suite

Dream Theater

Dream Theater

02:42

3 hours ago

The Enemy Inside

Dream Theater

Dream Theater

06:17

3 hours ago

• apply ./initTrackInfos.py foo.txt this will create foo.pkl and foo_counter.pkl -> foo.pkl consists a list of the tracks and foo_counter.pkl contains the position of the currently recorded file in the list.

• to record the playlist, start ./record.py foo.pkl and at the moment start the playlist. Don't change the volume but just enjoy the music (or go for a walk).

• the sound is first stored in current_recording.wav and exported to an mp3 after a moment of silence at the end of the track was recogized. The mp3 (with id3 Tags) is then copied into the ~/Music/Artist/Album Folder (which is created if it didn't exist yet)

• If you have to stop the recording, just call

./record.py foo.pkl test to see at which point you have to start the playlist again

Reading file Nr. 22 please start playlist at: The Best Of Times (by Dream Theater )

So just call ./record foo.pkl again and start the playlist at this position.

Requirements:

Currently only tested with Ubuntu 12.10