VLC Playlist Generator

I was spending too much time every day trying to figure out what background noise to have playing while I worked, so I created this project which will just scan a directory, select some random content and shove it in a m3u playlist file. That way you can just queue up whatever random nonsense, let it play, and get to work.

# You can run it as a command line bin.
npx tsx ./src/index.ts --source-search-directory /home/your_user/Downloads/ \
    --output-playlist-file-destination /tmp/my_playlist.m3u \
    --number-of-results 25

// You can import the class as a typescript module.
import { VLCPlaylistGenerator } from '@opsimathically/vlc_playlist_generator';

// create class handle
const vlc_playlist_generator = new VLCPlaylistGenerator();

// generate playlist
await vlc_playlist_generator.createPlaylist({
  number_of_results: 100,
  output_playlist_file_destination: '/tmp/whatever_random_playlistname.m3u',
  source_search_directory: '/home/your_user/Downloads/'
});

Install

npm install @opsimathically/vlc_playlist_generator

Building from source

This package is intended to be run via npm, but if you'd like to build from source, clone this repo, enter directory, and run npm install for dev dependencies, then run npm run build.

Reference

See API Reference for documentation