Hey fedi, I have a strange workflow that I'm trying to achieve here, and I need some pointers on making it work
What I'm trying to do is automate the conversion of my music library from FLAC to an iPod-ready format. I download a lot of FLAC, and I want my music to be iPod-ready without me having to rely on third-party apps (e.g. Swinsian, Foobar2K) for iPod syncing. I keep all of my music on a network share, though, and very rarely does my library leave it, so I want it to be easy to automate (preferably within Docker, since it'll
be running on an unRAID box).
Here's my end-goal: create a workflow chain that creates a perfect copy of my library in a separate folder, just converted entirely to an iPod-compatible lossy format (like MP3 or AAC). My sub goals for this project are as follows:
- Maintains 1:1 folder/file structure
- Retains all *useful* metadata (artist, album, itunes_compilation, date/year, etc.) while stripping away 'useless' metadata (musicbrainz ids, release media, etc.) - the iPod only has 128MB of RAM and it *will* load every single tag into memory)
- preferably 100% fully automated. I don't ever want to think about having to manually run a final step; I only want to manage one music library, so if a new album or song is added, it gets automatically converted into the *new* library as well
I hope this all makes sense. Any pointers in the right direction would be very, very useful!!! <3
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