redbetter is a script which automatically transcodes and uploads these files to Redacted.
The following command will scan through every FLAC you have ever downloaded (if it is in , determine which formats are needed, transcode the FLAC to each needed format, and upload each format to Redacted -- automatically.
$ redbetter
You're going to need to install a few dependencies before using redbetter.
First and foremost, you will need Python 2.7 or newer.
Once you've got Python installed, you will need a few modules: mechanize, mutagen, and requests. Try this:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
If you are on a seedbox, or a system without root priviliages, try this:
$ pip install --user -r requirements.txt
Alternatively, if you have setuptools installed, you can do this (in the source directory):
$ python setup.py install
This should theoretically install all required dependencies automatically.
Furthermore, you need several external programs: mktorrent, flac, lame, and sox. The method of installing these programs varies depending on your operating system, but if you're using something like Ubuntu you can do this:
# aptitude install mktorrent flac lame sox
If you are on a seedbox and you lack the privilages to install packages, you could contact your provider to have these packages installed.
At this point you may execute the following command:
$ redbetter
And you will receive a notification stating that you should edit the configuration file ~/.redbetter/config (if you're lucky).
You've made it far! Congratulations. Open up the file ~/.redbetter/config in a text editor. You're going to see something like this:
[redacted]
username =
password =
data_dir =
alt_data_dir =
output_dir =
torrent_dir =
formats = flac, v0, 320
media = sacd, soundboard, web, dvd, cd, dat, vinyl, blu-ray
24bit_behaviour = 0
username and password are your Redacted login credentials.
data_dir is the directory where your downloads are stored.
alt_data_dir is a second directory to check if a torrent isn't found in the
primary data_dir.
output_dir is the directory where your transcodes will be created. If
the value is blank, data_dir will be used.
torrent_dir is the directory where torrents should be created (e.g.,
your watch directory). formats is a list of formats that you'd like to
support (so if you don't want to upload V0, just remove it from this
list).
media is a list of lossless media types you want to consider for
transcoding. The default value is all Redacted lossless formats, but if
you want to transcode only CD and vinyl media, for example, you would
set this to 'cd, vinyl'.
24bit_behaviour defines what happens when the program encounters a FLAC
that it thinks is 24bits. If it is set to '2', every FLAC that has a bits-
per-sample property of 24 will be silently re-categorized. If it set to '1',
a prompt will appear. The default is '0' which ignores these occurrences.
You should end up with something like this:
[redacted]
username = RequestBunny
password = clapton
data_dir = /srv/downloads
alt_data_dir = /srv/linked_folders
output_dir = /srv/transcodes
torrent_dir = /srv/torrents
formats = flac, v0, 320
media = cd, vinyl, web
24bit_behaviour = 0
Alright! Now you're ready to use redbetter.
usage: redbetter [-h] [-s] [--config CONFIG] [--cache CACHE]
[release_urls [release_urls ...]]
positional arguments:
release_urls the URL where the release is located
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s, --single only add one format per release (useful for getting unique
groups)
--config CONFIG the location of the configuration file (default:
~/.redbetter/config)
--cache CACHE the location of the cache (default: ~/.redbetter/cache)
-u --uploads search uploaded torrents instead of snatched
-U --no-upload don\'t upload new torrents (in case you want to do it manually)
-E --no-24bit-edit don\'t try to edit 24-bit torrents mistakenly labeled as 16-bit'
To transcode and upload every snatch you've ever downloaded (this may take a while):
$ redbetter
To transcode and upload a specific release (provided you have already
downloaded the FLAC and it is located in your data_dir):
$ redbetter http://Redacted/torrents.php?id=1000\&torrentid=1000000
Note that if you specify a particular release(s), redbetter will ignore your configuration's media types and attempt to transcode the releases you have specified regardless of their media type (so long as they are lossless types).
Your first time running redbetter might take a while, but after it has successfully gone through and checked everything, it'll go faster any consecutive runs due to it's caching method.