Music Metadata Search

Search in your local music library using quick filter on metadata tags.

My main usage is to find musics I want to play and pipe it to mpv but it can be used for different purposes (see "usage").

music-metadata-search ~/music --where "genre like '%sport%'" | mpv --playlist=-

It will:

• walk in the given directory and parse metadata using music-metadata
• filter results
• pipe results

My main objective is to have a CLI tool fast & convenient, for myself. It takes 5s for my library of 150go (5406 files), and then less than 1s using the cache.

Install

npm i music-metadata-search

CLI usage

Generate list of file path matching where the genre contains "French":

music-metadata-search ~/music/ -g 'French'

Or you can pipe to mpv to play them. Example playlist my new Rock songs:

music-metadata-search ~/music/ -g 'rock' | mpv --playlist=-

Or you can export an old school French Touch playlist as .m3u file:

music-metadata-search ~/music/ -g 'French' --year '2000..2005' -f m3u > french-touch.m3u

Or getting the "Daft Punks albums before 2000" using JSON output and jq

music-metadata-search ~/music/ -a 'daft' --year '<2000' -f json | jq '[.[].album] | unique'

Use music-metadata-search --help for more information.

Usage: music-metadata-search [options] [path]

Search in your local music library using quick filters on metadata tags

Arguments:
  path                                               The directory of local files (default: "/home/alexandre/github/madeindjs/music-metadata-search")

Options:
  -V, --version                                      output the version number
  -q, --query [genre]                                Search the term everywhere)
  -g, --genre [genre]                                Filter by genre of the track using `LIKE` operator
  -a, --artist [artist]                              Filter by artist of the track using `LIKE` operator
  -b, --album [album]                                Filter by album of the track using `LIKE` operator
  -y, --year [year]                                  Filter by year of the track
                                                     If a single value is provided, it will filter by `=`, you can also give a range like `1..10 to filter using `BETWEEN` operator
  -t, --title [title]                                Title of the track to search using `LIKE` operator
  -c, --comment [comment]                            Comment of the track to search using `LIKE` operator
  -d,--duration [duration]                           Filter by duration of the track (in seconds)
                                                     If a single value is provided, it will filter by `=`, you can also give a range like `1..10 to filter using `BETWEEN` operator
  --bpm [bpm]                                        Filter by BPM of the track
                                                     If a single value is provided, it will filter by `=`, you can also give a range like `1..10 to filter using `BETWEEN` operator
  --bitrate [bitrate]                                Filter by bitrate of the track (in bits/seconds)
                                                     If a single value is provided, it will filter by `=`, you can also give a range like `1..10 to filter using `BETWEEN` operator
  --musicbrainzTrackId [musicbrainzTrackId]
  --musicbrainzArtistId [musicbrainzArtistId]
  --musicbrainzAlbumId [musicbrainzAlbumId]
  --musicbrainzRecordingId [musicbrainzRecordingId]
  -l, --limit [limit]                                Limit the number of tracks returned
  -f, --format [format]                              Output format (choices: "txt", "json", "m3u", default: "txt")
  --ext [ext...]                                     Extensions of Audio files to scan (default: [".mp3",".flac",".m4a",".ogg",".aac"])
  --log-level [logLevel]                             Log level (choices: "trace", "debug", "info", "warn", "error", "fatal", default: "fatal")
  -h, --help                                         display help for command

Lib usage

import { search } from "music-metadata-search";

const tracks = search("/home/alexandre/Musique/", {
  // Filter artist of the track using `LIKE` operator
  artist: "Daft",
  // Extensions of Audio files to scan
  ext: [".flac"],
  // Log level for [pino](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pino) (default to `'silent'`)
  logLevel: "debug",
  // Filter by title of the track to search using `LIKE` operator
  title: "One",
  // Limit the number of tracks returned
  limit: 10,
});
for await (const track of tracks) console.log(track);

/*
  {
    path: '/home/alexandre/Musique/Daft Punk/2007-12-04 -  Alive 2007/08 One More Time _ Aerodynamic.flac',
    title: 'One More Time / Aerodynamic',
    genre: 'Electronic',
    artist: 'Daft Punk',
    album: 'Alive 2007',
    year: 2007
  }
  {
    path: '/home/alexandre/Musique/Daft Punk/2001-03-13 -  Discovery/01 One More Time.flac',
    title: 'One More Time',
    genre: 'House',
    artist: 'Daft Punk',
    album: 'Discovery',
    year: 2001
  }
*/