Do you have a music album as a single file (locally or on YouTube), with all its tracks joined together? Do you want to split that album in its single tracks? Do you want to tag these tracks so your music player can get all the required infos from them?

This script is for you!

0. Install ffmpeg
1. Install Python 3
2. Install pip3
3. Install virtualenv
4. Fork/Clone/Download this repository
5. virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv (optional)
   • source venv/bin/activate
6. Install the required packages via pip
   • pip install -r requirements.txt

1. Open tracks.txt
2. Add tracks info in this format:
   • <start-time> - <title>
   • A track on each line
   • See Examples section
3. Run the script
   • Basic usage: python split.py -mp3 <path/to/your/album.mp3>
   • More in the Examples section
4. Wait for the splitting process to complete
5. ????
6. You will find yout tracks in the "splits" folder

1. Copy the YouTube URL of the album you want to download and split
2. Find in the YouTube comments the tracklist with start-time and title
3. Open tracks.txt
4. Copy the tracklist in the file, adjusting for the supported format
   • <start-time> - <title>
   • A track on each line
5. Run the script
   • Basic usage: python split.py -yt <youtube_url>
   • More in the Examples section
6. Wait for the Download and for the conversion
7. Wait for the splitting process to complete
8. ????
9. You will find yout tracks in the "splits" folder

1. This is the album I want to download and split: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_uqD4ng9hw
2. I find the tracklist in the comments and I copy that in tracks.txt, adjust it to my format

00:06 - When I Was Young
...
14:48 - Pretty Little Girl
<start-time> - <title> <--- remove this, just as a reminder of the format

3. I execute python split.py -yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_uqD4ng9hw and wait
4. Once the process is complete I open splits and I find all my songs:

    When I Was Young.mp3 
    ...
    Pretty Little Girl.mp3

These songs are already mp3-tagged with their track name and track number, but not their author or their album, since we have not specified it.

1. I somehow got the file DogsEatingDogsAlbum.mp3 that I want to split
2. I set the tracklist in tracks.txt (same tracks as before)
3. I execute python splits.py -mp3 DogsEatingDogsAlbum.mp3 --album "Dogs Eating Gods" --artist "blink-182" --folder "2012 - Dogs Eating Dogs"
4. The program will execute, it will split the album, and mp3-tag each track with the author and the album name I passed as a parameter (as well as track number and name). It will also put the files in the folder passed as an argument (instead of putting them in the default splits folder)

1. This is the album I want to download and split: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_uqD4ng9hw
2. This is the Wikipedia page that has the album tracklist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs\_Eating\_Dogs
3. I execute python split.py -yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_uqD4ng9hw -w https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs\_Eating\_Dogs and wait
4. Once the process is complete I open splits and I find all my songs:

    When I Was Young.mp3 
    ...
    Pretty Little Girl.mp3

These songs are already mp3-tagged with their track name and track number, but not their author or their album, since we have not specified it.

The same works for the -amz (--amazon) parameter, instead you have to provide a link to Amazon.

python split.py -h

1. Open split.py
2. Find this line regex = re.compile("(?P<start>.+)\s*\-\s*(?P<title>.+)")
3. Change this line to whatever Regex you want but be sure to match at least (?P<start>.+) and (?P<title>.+)
4. Test your changes
5. Have fun!

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If you need any help just create an Issue or send me an email at the address you can find on my profile.

If you want to improve the code and submit a pull request feel free to do so.

GPL v3