It doesn't make sense to copy cue/log files to the transcode directory. We should still probably copy everything else to make sure we get things like album art and any other extras.

Hey there,

First off, this script is awesome!

Anywho I want to run a cron to automate the task.

If I run the better.pl directly without cd'ing into the folder then it creates a better.ini in my home folder which doesn't work.

So I made a basic bash script as follows:

! /bin/bash

cd ~/bettertron/
perl better.pl

That works fine if I run the script in terminal, but when I add it to a cron, then it doesn't seem to work.

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * bash /home/matsta/bettertron/autotranscode.sh

I'm on a seedbox, so unfortunately I can't see the cron logs to see what the problem is.

If you could please help, that would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

I am getting this error when trying to run this on my whatbox seedbox...I am not sure what it could be.

If the original directory is Artist - Album FLAC, the target directory should not be something like Artist - Album FLAC [320].

Instead of just copying the name we should dynamically build it from tags.

Because I am lazy I might just cut the word FLAC out instead

I am trying to run convert.pl and get the following error;
invalid top directory at /usr/share/perl/5.14/File/Find.pm line 464.

How can I solve this? I run on a seedbox where I am not root, and I know very little Linux.

I get this warning message for every transcode. It doesn't seem to affect the operation.

Running transcode with these options: ./converter.pl --320 --V2 "/downloads/Athlete - 2005 - Tourist (Japan) (flac)"
Unknown option: 320
Unknown option: v2

Thank you so much for this script. It saves so much time!

Avoid transcoding pre emphasis flacs as the transcodes are against the rules.

I was having issues with installing this on whatbox due to the lack of sudo privileges. I spoke with their support team. They gave me the following directions, which worked perfectly. I thought it might be useful to pass this along. Perhaps you can incorporate these steps into your documentation in case someone else might be able to benefit from them.

1. curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus
2. /perl5/bin/cpanm --local-lib=/perl5 local::lib && eval $(perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5/ -Mlocal::lib)
3. echo eval $(perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5/ -Mlocal::lib) >> ~/.bashrc
4. cpanm WWW::Mechanize JSON JSON::XS Data::Dumper Config::IniFiles Bencode Crypt::SSLeay

The script was running for a while when this error occured. It was after several successful uploads.

Error POSTing https://what.cd/upload.php?groupid=13453: Origin Time-out at ./better.pl line 315.

The torrent was posted on what.cd, but the torrent file was not moved to the torrent directory (watch in this case). it was left in the program directory.

The program exited.