Podcast Synch Batch File

Not finding a good way to manage my podcasts on my Sansa e250 and I'm already manually dumping files from iTunes anyway (my choice).

For the meantime, here is synch.bat to del all files in the Podcasts directory on the Sansa and then xcopy everything in the iTunes Podcasts directory. It's not quick, but it works.

echo off
cls
del "g:\music\podcasts\*" /S /Q
xcopy "D:\music\Ipod\Podcasts\*.mp3" /S "g:\music\Podcasts\"

Next step I plan to write something that checks:

• Cleanup the code
• Make a playlist (by directory or by group?)
• Does file exist in both places - don't copy
• Does file exist in dest and not in source - del dest
• Does file exist in source and not in dest - copy source
• Implement create directory if not exist routine
• Read the Sansa On The Go Playlist and delete files that are found
• Make dest drive setting value
• Check ID3 tag and set if blank - see &johncdvorak

Autoplay Handler

Added an AutoPlay handler (directions here). Now when connected, synchronization is possible from the popup window.

Script Test

File:SubDir.jpg

Perl Script

use File::Copy;
use Win32::Console::ANSI;
use Term::ANSIColor;
use MP3::Info;

use Cwd;
my $dir = cwd;
$dir =~ s/\///g;
print color 'bold blue on_white';
print "Portable Player Drive is $dir\n";
print color 'reset';

my $podcastsource="C:/Documents and Settings/Mike/My Documents/My Music/Podcasts";
my $podcastdest="$dir/MUSIC/Podcasts";
my $dircontents=();
my $destdir=();
my $checkmp3tag=();
my $checkmp3name=();

print color 'bold blue on_white';
print  "Checking source files to move to destination:\n";
print color 'reset';

&move($podcastsource); #Check what is in the source and not in the dest - copy to dest

print color 'bold blue on_white';
print "Reading On The Go.plp for files to remove from portable:\n";
print color 'reset';

&OnTheGo;

print color 'bold blue on_white';
print  "Checking for files to remove from source:\n";
print color 'reset';

&smash($podcastdest);  #Check what is in the dest and not in the source - del from dest


sub johncdvorak
    {
    #This routine is dedicated to John C Dvorak by way of CrankyGeeks
    my $file=$checkmp3tag;
    my $mp3 = new MP3::Info $file;

        my $newtag=();
        if ($checkmp3name =~ m/(.*).mp3/)
        {
        $newtag=$1;
        
        #Strip out numbers.  If we're lucky
        #we'll have a nice name for the tag w/o
        #show/ep numbers
        
        $newtag =~ s/[0-9]//g;  
        }            

        if ($mp3->title eq "")
            {
            $tag->{TITLE} = $newtag;
            set_mp3tag($checkmp3tag, $tag);
            }
        if ($mp3->artist eq "")
            {
            $tag->{ARTIST} = $newtag;
            set_mp3tag($checkmp3tag, $tag);
            }
        if ($mp3->album eq "")
            {
            $tag->{ALBUM} = $newtag;
            set_mp3tag($checkmp3tag, $tag);
            }
        if ($mp3->genre eq "")
            {
            #You must edit MP3\Info.pm and add Podcast to the genres
            #for this to work.  If I remember, I'll email Chris Nandor
            #and relay that. [email protected]
            $tag->{GENRE} = 'Podcast';
            set_mp3tag($checkmp3tag, $tag);
            }
        $mp3 = new MP3::Info $file;
        printf "Checked ID3v1 tags for $checkmp3name:\nTitle: %s Artist: %s Genre: %s\n",
                $mp3->title, $mp3->artist, $mp3->genre;
        #ref: FILE, TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, YEAR, COMMENT, GENRE
    }


sub OnTheGo
    {
    $LOGFILE_IN="$dir/PLAYLISTS/On The Go.plp";
    open LOGFILE_IN, $LOGFILE_IN or die "Cannot open $LOGFILE_IN for read :$!";
    
    while (<LOGFILE_IN>) 
        {
        my $tmp=$_;
        $tmp =~ s/\0//g;
        $tmp =~ s/\015//g;
        $tmp =~ s/\012//g;
        $tmp =~ s/HARP, /$dir\//;
        $tmp =~ s/\\/\//g;
        #print "$tmp\n";
        if ($tmp =~ /$dir/)
            {
            if ($tmp =~ m/($podcastdest)\/(.+)/)
                {
                my $file=$2;
                if(-e "$podcastsource/$file")
                    {
                    $file="$podcastsource/$file";
                    unlink ($file) or warn "Cannot del $file: $!";; 
                    print color 'bold yellow on_magenta';                    
                    print "$2\n";
                    print color 'reset';
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
	
sub makedest
    {	
    my $destdirectory=$destdir;
    @directory2make = split(/\//, $destdirectory);
    shift (@directory2make); #drop the first
    $directorytmp="";
    $directory1tmp="";

    foreach $directory2make (@directory2make)
        {
        $directory1tmp="$directory1tmp\/$directory2make";
        #print "$directory1tmp\n";
        $directorytmp="$dir$directory1tmp";
        #print "$directory1tmp\n";
        #print "$directorytmp\n";
        if(!-e $directorytmp)
            {
            print color 'bold yellow on_magenta';                    
            print "Did not find $directorytmp\n";                    
            mkdir ("$directorytmp") or die "Cannot make $directorytmp :$!";		    #incoming logs go here
            print "Created $directorytmp\n";    
            print color 'reset';
            }
        } # end for each
	} 

sub move 
    {
    my $dir = shift;
    opendir DIR, $dir or return;
    my @contents =
    map "$dir/$_",
    sort grep !/^\.\.?$/,
    readdir DIR;
    closedir DIR;
    
    foreach (@contents) 
        {
        next unless !-l && -d;
        &move($_);
        $dircontents=$_;
        &createcontents($dircontents);
        rmdir $_;
      }
    }
    
sub createcontents
    {
    opendir(DIR, "$dircontents") or die "Cannot open $dircontents to read: $!";
    @newfiles = grep(/\.mp3$/ || /\.jpg$/ ,readdir(DIR));
    closedir(DIR);
    foreach $newfile (@newfiles) 
        {
        if ($dircontents =~ m/($podcastsource)\/(.+)/)
            {
            $destdir="$podcastdest/$2";
            my $testdir="$destdir/$newfile";
            
            if(!-e $testdir)
                {
               if(!-e $destdir)  #check to see if dest exists, if not, create the dir   
                   {
                   &makedest($destdir);
                   }
                my $filetobecopied = "$podcastsource/$2/$newfile";
                my $oldfile = "$podcastdest/$2/$newfile";
                print color 'bold yellow on_magenta';                    
                print "Copying $newfile\n";
                print color 'reset';
                copy($filetobecopied, $oldfile) or die "File cannot be copied.";    
                if ($newfile =~ "mp3")
                    {
                    $checkmp3tag=$oldfile;
                    $checkmp3name=$newfile;
                    &johncdvorak($checkmp3tag,$checkmp3name);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }



sub smash 
    {
    my $dir = shift;
    opendir DIR, $dir or return;
    my @contents =
    map "$dir/$_",
    sort grep !/^\.\.?$/,
    readdir DIR;
    closedir DIR;
    
    foreach (@contents) 
        {
        next unless !-l && -d;
        &smash($_);
        $dircontents=$_;
        &destroycontents($dircontents);
        rmdir $_;
        }
    }
    
sub destroycontents
    {
    opendir(DIR, "$dircontents") or die "Cannot open $dircontents to read: $!";
    @files = grep(/\.mp3$/,readdir(DIR));
    closedir(DIR);
    foreach $file (@files) 
        {
            #print "$file\n";
        if ($dircontents =~ m/($podcastdest)\/(.+)/)
            {
            if(!-e "$podcastsource/$2/$file")
                {
                my $del="$podcastdest/$2/$file";
                unlink ($del);      
                print color 'bold yellow on_magenta';                    
                print "$del\n";                
                print color 'reset';
                }
            }
        }
    }