make a playlist by fuzzy finding

a script that uses fzf to search for songs, gives options for what to name and where to save a new .m3u playlist, and starts playing it immediately if you want.

my reason for making this was that i had completely rearranged the structure of my music folder and had several playlists where i had the titles of the songs but not the full paths. this made remaking one take like 3 minutes for a hundred songs which i am very pleased with, it's also fun for throwing little things together. download a copy here.

#! /bin/bash

CYN='\033[0;36m' # cyan

WHT='\033[0m' # white/default color

makeplaylist() {

echo -e "${CYN}now, add songs. the track order will be the order you select them in."

sleep 2

echo -e "${CYN}to select or deselect a song press TAB, when you're done, press ENTER."

sleep 4

find $HOME/Music ! -name '*.png' ! -name '*.jpg' ! -name '*.jpeg' ! -name '*.m3u' ! -name '.DS_Store' -type f -print | fzf --multi --preview='ffprobe -v error -print_format default=nw=1:nk=0 -show_entries format_tags=title,artist,album {} | sed  "s/TAG://" | sed "s/=/ : /" | sort -r' | cat > "$destination/$filename.m3u"

echo -e "${WHT}..."

sleep 1

echo -e "${CYN}playlist created!"

sleep 1

echo -e "${CYN}open with default .m3u player?${WHT}"

sleep 1

PS3='-> '

options=("yes" "no")

select opt in "${options[@]}"

do

	case $opt in

		"yes")

			nohup xdg-open "$destination/$filename.m3u" 0/dev/null 2>/dev/null &

			echo -e "${CYN}enjoy your playlist!"

			exit

			;;

		"no")

			echo -e "${CYN}enjoy your playlist!"

			exit

			;;

		*) echo -e "${WHT}$REPLY ${CYN}is not an option, try again.${WHT}";;

	esac

done

}

echo -e "${CYN}welcome to the fuzzy playlist maker!"

sleep 1

read -p "$(echo -e "${CYN}filename for playlist? (spaces are okay)${WHT}")

-> " filename

echo -e "${CYN}okay, it will be named ${WHT}$filename.m3u."

sleep 1

echo -e "${CYN}save to ${WHT}~/Music/Playlists ${CYN}or somewhere else?${WHT}"

PS3='-> '

options=("yes" "somewhere else")

select opt in "${options[@]}"

do

	case $opt in

		"yes")

			destination=$HOME/Music/Playlists

			makeplaylist

			;;

		"somewhere else")

			read -p "$(echo -e "${CYN}please type the full path:${WHT}")

-> " destination

			echo -e "${CYN}okay, it will be created in ${WHT}$destination."

			sleep 1

			makeplaylist

			;;

		*) echo -e "${WHT}$REPLY ${CYN}is not an option, try again.${WHT}";;

	esac

done

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make a playlist by fuzzy finding