If you’re using Sabnzbd to download from usenet groups, it allows you to use a shell script for post processing. This script can be used to move any music files from your download location to a remote hard drive (or any mounted drive) as well as automatically adding the downloaded music to iTunes using AppleScript.
To use this with Sabnzbd, simply open a text editor and save it as “music_sort.sh”. (Or what ever you like!) – then tell Sabnzbd where to find the script. Here’s the script in it’s entirety. I’ll go through it bit by bit below
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | #!/bin/bash #1 = Full path to the downloaded file #3 = Folder name of the download #delete any files which you don't want to copy echo "Deleting the bumfluff..." rm -f "$1"/*.nfo rm -f "$1"/*.srr rm -f "$1"/*.sfv rm -f "$1"/*.nzb rm -f "$1"/*.m3u rm -f "$1"/*.jpg echo "[done]" #move the file to your remote location echo "Moving..." mv -fv "$1" /volumes/myDrive/music echo "[done]" #add the file to iTunes echo "Adding to iTunes…" osascript << APPLESCRIPT tell application "iTunes" to add "volumes:myDrive:music:$3" to playlist "Library" APPLESCRIPT echo "[done]" exit |
One thing to note here (and it took me a while to find it out) is that the path to add files to iTunes automatically has to have : and not a back or forward slash.
I’m sure this script can be improved, so please post if you spot anything!
How do I get it to move my movies to?
I wasn’t able to get htis to work..I made sure the file was SH. Then made sure it was used as a post-process script….here’s my code:
#!/bin/bash
#1 = Full path to the downloaded file
#3 = Folder name of the download
#delete any files which you don’t want to copy
echo “Deleting the bumfluff…”
rm -f “$1″/*.nfo
rm -f “$1″/*.srr
rm -f “$1″/*.sfv
rm -f “$1″/*.nzb
rm -f “$1″/*.m3u
rm -f “$1″/*.jpg
echo “[done]”
#move the file to your remote location
echo “Moving…”
mv -fv “$1″ /Volumes/Media/Music
echo “[done]”
#add the file to iTunes
echo “Adding to iTunes”
osascript << APPLESCRIPT
tell application "iTunes" to add "volumes:Macintosh HD:Users:amit:Music:iTunes Music:$3" to playlist "Library"
APPLESCRIPT
echo "[done]"
exit
TIA!
I use a simpler alternative. You can have a one line script to just copy/move the files to your “Automatically Add to iTunes” directory:
cp -fv “$1″/*.mp3 “~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes/”
Thanks for this! I’m going to modify my script soon so will try this solution.
Cheers, Matt