AudioSampleOrganizer

• Moves samples based on their names to corresponding directory you can define
  • Moves/Copies all .mp3 .wav, and .aif files found under a directory to whereever.
• Print out strings and their frequency from your sample filenames

Useful if you're downloading from splice or somewhere and don't care what the pack names are anymore and just want to flatten the hierarchy.

The amount of directories you have to open to get to samples is ridiculous and makes me not listen to any samples.

Organization

Sample Directories

Idea is to define a set of directories like snare ride or hat and for any sample that contains the names of these folders put them in the corresponding directory. For example:

Directories: 
sample_directory/
---/snare
---/ride 
---/hat

Files:
    snare1.wav 
    fat_snare.wav 
    GoToSnare.wav               ----all placed--->      'sample_directory/snare' directory`
    badly-named-snare.wav 
    my snare.wav  

    my hat.wav  
    hihat.wav               ----all placed--->      'sample_directory/hat' directory`
    open-hat.wav  

    GoToRide.wav  
    ride.wav               ----all placed--->      'sample_directory/ride' directory`

All samples are put into a directory depending on the names listed in sample_directory_list.txt I picked my names/organization based by looking at results of my sample_organizer.py stat output. You may want to do this for your own samples and pick different names.

I am only detecting if a string is in a filename (string contains) for this python app. Nothing fancy.

The order of names in sample_directory_list.txt may matter if you have some badly named files. hihat_snare.wav would go into snare based on the current order.

Use multiple strings

Sample folders can also match against several strings if you define a new file in the strings directory. Files in the strings directory correspond to folders defined by sample_directory_list.txt These text files increase the amount of strings to compare against to add to a sample directory.

For example:

percussion.txt = 
shaker
clave
block

shaker.wav
clave.wav               ----- all placed into ---->  /percussion
block.wav

Customize Organization

Adding a new directory for samples with multiple strings

uhh maybe write cli for this

• Pick a good name that will map uniquely to some sample filenames, for example let's try animal
• Add the name (animal) to sample_directory_list.txt
• Add a file called animal.txt into the strings directory
• Add some more good strings into animal.txt that may match animals like dog bark roar meow
• Now

  animal.wav 
  dog_barking.wav 
  LionRoar.wav              ------all placed into -------->              /animals
  cat-meow.wav` 
  

• Use the python app on the command line to move or copy the files to your organization following this new setup.

Install

• Requirements
  • Python 3+ (I wrote this with python 3.7)

Download this repository (link above this readme) or Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/oorahmi/AudioSampleOrganizer.git

Command Line Usage

Copy Samples

python sample_organizer.py copy source_directory destination_directory

• Take samples from source and copy them in destination based on your sample_directories list
• Destination is the top level directory of where you're putting all your samples ie. destination/snare, destination/hat, ... and so on

Move Samples

python sample_organizer.py move source_directory destination_directory

• little more dangerous
• take samples from source and move them in destination based on your sample_directories list
• destination is the top level directory of where you're putting all your samples ie. destination/snare, destination/hat, ... and so on
• Useful if you've just changed your organization in some way just do: sample_organizer move_samples <source_directory> <source_directory> and you can reorganize all your samples in place!

Reorganize Samples

python sample_organizer.py reorganize organized_sample_directory new_directory_name

• ...thinking about this...
• partial reorganize
• Used if you have a new directory and want to check all samples to see if they match that name and reorganize. ie. make a new dir called 'tamborine' so find all my organized samples that have 'tamborine' and put them in new dir.
• doesn't take capital letters seriously, i guess just like your os.

Samples Statistics

python sample_organizer.py stat sample_directory_1  sample_directory_2 ... sample_directory_n

• get a listing of common strings that occur for your sample library
• useful to see how you may want to organize your sample library and edit folder names in sample_directory_list or files in strings