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4 .TH FAPG 1 "APRIL 2004" Linux "User Manuals"
7 fapg \- Fast Audio Playlist Generator
10 .B fapg [-b|--backslash] [-d|--debug] [-f|--format=m3u|pls|html] [-g|--genre
16 .B ] [-r|--recursive] [-w|--windows] [-x|--exclude
26 is a tool to generate list of audio files (Wav, MP2, MP3, Ogg, etc) in various
27 formats (M3U, PLS, HTML, etc). It is very useful if you have a large amount
28 of audio files and you want to quickly and frequently build a playlist.
30 It is coded in C to be as fast as possible, and does not use any specific
31 audio library (like ID3Lib). This allow you to deploy it faster and easier,
32 and to have better performances since the less informations are loaded.
33 On the other hand, this tool is not (yet) compatible with all the known
38 Replace the '/' with '\' in Unix path.
40 Display useful messages if the program fails ;)
41 .IP -f|--format=m3u|pls|html
42 Choose which format of playlist you want to generate (default is m3u).
43 .IP -g|--genre=#:#:...
44 Choose which genres (numerical values only) will be included in the generated playlist (default is all).
45 .IP -o|--output=/path/to/file.m3u
46 Choose the name of the playlist file to generate (default behavior is
47 to display on standard output).
48 .IP -p|--prefix=/the/prefix
49 Replace the Unix path with another string (useful to give a Samba path
52 Recursively read the subdirectories.
54 Replace all Unix characters with Windows characters.
55 .IP -x|--exclude=#:#:...
56 Choose which genres (numerical values only) will be excluded in the generated playlist (default is none).
59 Generate a PLS playlist for an album:
60 .B fapg --format=pls --output=~/path/to/album/list.pls ~/path/to/album
62 You have a file server using Samba which shares a large amount of
63 audio files for Windows powered computers using Winamp. The directory
64 on the server containing the files is
66 and is visible on the Windows network as
67 .I \\\\\\\\server\\\\mp3
69 .B fapg --backslash --output=/samba/mp3/list.m3u --prefix='\\\\\\\\server\\\\mp3\\\\' --recursive --windows /samba/mp3
71 An HTML playlist for an album:
72 .B fapg --output=fapg.html ~/path/to/album
74 A playlist that contains all your classical tracks may receive the genres to include (or exclude) in one or multiple portions
75 .B fapg --genre=32:105 --genre=106:104:103 /path/to/all/music
79 Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com>, http://royale.zerezo.com/fapg/.
80 Manpage by Thomas Kappler <thomas.kappler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>.