audiobrowse.bash

simple commandline audio preview/copy/move of (sample)directories for sample-artists / musician and producers

Why

Because deadsimple audition of directories with samples should be easy peasy like so:

Installation

In your terminal type:

 wget "https://github.com/coderofsalvation/audiobrowse.bash/raw/master/audiobrowse.bash"
 chmod 755 audiobrowse.bash
 ./audiobrowse.bash

Features

• pressing enter tries to play the audio (when playback utils are available)
• easy directory navigation using arrowkeys + '.' (=directory up)
• pressing 'c' will copy selected file to particular dir (prompted once)
• pressing 'm' will move selected file to particular dir (prompted once)
• pressing 'f' will filter results
• pressing '?' will give statistics on the current file like so:

Dependancies

• bash (so any *NIX system)

Hint

Install the 'sox' and 'mpg123' for stats and mp3-playback.

copy audiobrowse.bash to ~/bin and add ~/bin to your PATH like so:

export PATH=$PATH:~/bin

This way you can type 'audiob<TAB>' from any directory

Why

Sometimes less is more and faster.

Credits

audiobrowse.bash was built upon the lscd project