Output directory

[Vitiligote]

Hello, Can we have two outputs when i dowload a song? Thanks

[miraclx]

Hey man, can you explain what you mean please?

You want to save one track download to two folders?

Can't you just copy the downloaded file after?

[Vitiligote]

It's quite complicated. I would like, when I download music, it automatically integrates into my songs from Apple music. First I tried dragging the download directly to iTunes' "Automatically add to iTunes" folder but that worked half the time because of embedding data. I figured I was going to download the music first, copy the music to a folder and then move it to the Automatically add to iTunes folder using the cp and mv function in Terminal. It works. To make it even easier, I decided to create a playlist on Apple music with all the new songs I need to download. As via Freyr, I just have to launch the same download of my playlist each time. The problem is that when I first download my playlist, I need my Freyr source folder to contain the old music already downloaded in order to avoid re-downloading them each time and I also need another folder containing only newly downloaded songs so as not to put old ones back in the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. I don't know if you followed me and I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance

[miraclx]

Two options, not sure which one resonates most with what you're trying to achieve.

1. Tell freyr to save the songs directly into your iTunes music library. Freyr has the -d, --directory <DIR> flag, so you can use freyr in this manner:

   freyr -d /path/to/library <urls...>

2. You can synchronize the freyr download folder to your iTunes music library. Using something like rsync. This would skip over the already-copied files, and copy new ones. But this would mean you'll be maintaining two different libraries, with a storage implication from this duplicity. One managed by freyr and the other by iTunes.

[Vitiligote]

For the first, as I said, the synchronization is not done well half the time because of the embedding data

For rsync, I just tried in iTunes music file, however the synchronization does not happen automatically, that's why I used the automatically add folder to iTunes

[miraclx]

Yeah, I'm not sure what I can do to aid this, I don't use iTunes anymore. And if anything, it'd be out of scope of this project.

[miraclx]

Hi @Vitiligote, I just got a MacBook and this makes sense now 😆

Hm, it's a tricky case. But I'll find a workaround.

I'm thinking I can make the -d, --directory flag a bit more sophisticated than it currently is.

Maybe instead of taking one argument that is a folder path, it can take multiple folder paths, delimited by :

So in the case of: freyr -d ./a:./b <url>

It would check if the track exists in either ./a or ./b, and if it doesn't exist, it downloads it into the last directory ./b.

[Vitiligote]

Hi, Excellent idea, I have since been able to solve my problem by fiddling a bit, but if you can do it, it would simplify my code!!

[miraclx]

@Vitiligote, can you share your solution?

[Vitiligote]

Hi, of course. I work with apple script. I created a playlist on apple music on which I add the new songs that I want to download. I launch the Freyr script of my playlist and at the end of the download I launch an apple script to move the downloaded music to another playlist in order to avoid the music already downloaded for the next times. It's a bit tedious but it works. However, it doesn't work with spotify playlists because I can't delete or move the music already downloaded...

freyr -d ~/Music/Freyr apple_music:playlist:pl.u-76oNPjetv34qPAN -s gb;
cp -R ~/Music/Freyr/*/*/*.m4a ~/Music/Musique; 
ls -tr ~/Music/Musique | while read LREAD
do;
mv ~/Music/Musique/${LREAD} ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Automatically\ Add\ to\ Music.localized ; 
sleep 10;
echo "Ajout de la musique" ${LREAD} "à la bibliothèque";
done;
osascript /Users/Simon/Downloads/move_tracks_playlist_freyr.scpt

move_tracks_playlist_freyr.scpt -->

tell application "Music"
    move tracks of playlist "Freyr" to playlist "Test"
end tell

[miraclx]

Implemented in #350. Took a different approach than I mentioned earlier. Should be more intuitive.