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## Introduction
A set of Perl scripts to help automate the creation of audio playlists. This repository contains two scripts:
- `build_db.plx` - Generate a sqlite3 database for your audio library, including each file's metadata tags
- `build_playlists.plx` - Generate m3u playlist files based on the sqlite3 database generated by `build_db.plx`
For usage of these scripts, append the `--help` flag
### Example
To build a database of all audio files in your `$HOME/Music` directory, and save the database as `$HOME/Music/library.db`:
```
./build_db.plx
```
To create a set of m3u playlists for every album in the database, and output all the m3u files in `$HOME/Music/playlists`:
```
./build_playlists.plx ALBUM,ALBUMARTIST "$HOME/Music/playlists/{ALBUMARTIST} - {ALBUM}.m3u"
```
To create an m3u playlist of all files in the database where the 'ARTIST' tag is 'Steely Dan', and save it as `steely_dan.m3u` in the current working directory:
```
./build_playlists.plx --sql "ARTIST='Steely Dan';" steely_dan.m3u
```
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