telemeta(1)

NAME
telemeta — backups, transcodes, tags and marks any audio content with metadata

SYNOPSIS

telemeta [OPTIONS] [COLLECTION] [OPTIONS] [MEDIA]

DESCRIPTION

telemeta is an audio tool which creates audio transcoded collections fast from fresh mastered files. It can be useful to backup digitalized audio media from vinyls, old tapes or whatever and include them in a database.

Telemeta first creates a simple file structure where the original sounds will be backuped. The files can be transcoded to WAV, FLAC, MP3 and OGG including the corresponding tags.

Here are some cool functions:

    - XML generation for metadata tags of backuped WAV

    - Audio marking from a given file or from tags thanks to the Festival speech systhesis tool

    - File corruption security with par2 recovery files

    - Collection synchronizing to remote servers (ssh+rsync)

    - Modify metadata from XML or interactive shell

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

--create
    creates a collection repository

--backup
    backups and transcodes wave files to a collection

--album
    proccesses an entire directory (one shot album)

--backup
    backups a media to the collection

--from-xml
    takes tags and opts in original xml source

--force
    forces file conversion (no audio test)

--par2
    forces par2 security file creation

--all-default
    chooses default argument for all question

--recover
    check an repair the backuped media with the previously created "par2" security files

--rsync
    synchronizes collection to a remote server (ssh+rsync)

--erase
    erases a collection (flac, ogg, mp3 only !)

--help
    Show summary of options.

--version
    Show version of program.

EXAMPLES

telemeta --create my_collection

telemeta --backup my_collection file.wav

telemeta --backup my_collection --album /path/to/directory/

telemeta --backup my_collection --album --par2 --rsync /path/to/directory/

telemeta --backup my_collection --album --par2 --rsync --force /path/to/directory/

DOWNLOAD

Telemeta is written in python. So it doesn't require any compilation step.

On Debian or Ubuntu just add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources-list:

deb http://yomix.org/debian/ binary/

deb-src http://yomix.org/debian/ source/

Then,

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install telemeta

On other linux platforms, download (link to URL http://yomix.org/telemeta/download/) the lastest .tar.gz archive, uncompress it, go into the created directory and just type this with your favorite shell :

python install.py

See README and INSTALL file for more informations.

You can also get the lastest version of Telemeta with subversion (just type 'enter' for the password:

svn co http://svn.yomix.org/svn/telemeta/trunk telemeta --username=anonymous

DEPENDS

python (>= 2.3.5-7), python-xml, python-central (>= 0.5), python-mutagen, sox, vorbis-tools, flac, lame, normalize-audio, ecasound, festival, par2

SEE ALSO

The program is documented fully by Guillaume Pellerin. More info at http://svn.yomix.org/telemeta/ (link to URL http://svn.yomix.org/telemeta/) .

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Guillaume Pellerin <yomguy@altern.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.