tidalhelper

about

tidalhelper is a command line utility for automatically organizing large collections of audio samples into folders for use with tidalcycles.

installation/usage

• make sure that the samples you want to organize are all in one folder, and begin with a logical prefix separated by an underscore, e.g. guitar_1.wav
• install python3
• open a terminal and run git clone https://github.com/isaacpearl/tidal-helper
• run cd tidal-helper to navigate to the project folder
• run python3 tidalhelper.py <targetdirectory>, replacing <targetdirectory> with the full path to the directory containing samples you want to organize. Make sure to include a / on the end of this filepath :)
• there will be a new folder inside your <targetdirectory> called tidal_samples/ with populated directories, named for each sample prefix.
• move tidal_samples/ to wherever you keep your tidalcycles samples
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roadmap

• arbitrary filenames as input (no underscores required)
• add unit tests
• distribute package with pip
• output guide to new folders (.txt or print) and their contents
• design specific sample naming convention including category/key/bpm, and add reorganization functionality (e.g. being able to reorganize folder structure based on sample group, key, bpm with flags - no sample renaming needed)
• gui
• smart categorization/folder naming (ml? audio analysis?)