App::Muletracks - Downloader for Gov't Mule live recordings

This module began as an automated downloader for your purchases on the Muletracks website, where Gov't Mule sold their live recordings. That site does not exist anymore and the recordings are now sold via https://nugs.net.

Adapted to the new platform (but keeping its old name), this project now works as a general downloader for nugs.net, but its capabilities are very limited (pagination on your library is not implemented, for instance).

Let me make it clear that this program merely automates clicks on "Download" buttons that a human would otherwise perform in a browser. You can only download from nugs.net what you purchased before.

How to use it

To install this module, you should clone the git repository and run

$ dzil build && cpanm App-Muletracks*.tar.gz

For that, you need the Perl authoring tool Dist::Zilla and its dependencies as well as the cpanm package manager. Sorry for the trouble.

Next, write the configuration file in $HOME/.config/muletracks/config.yml:

---
username: "???"
password: "???"
format: "%(artist)s - %(album)s/(CD%(cd)1d) %(track)02d. %(title)s"
destination: "$HOME/muletracks"
...

username and password are your cleartext credentials for nugs.net.

The format key which instructs the Tagger about how to rename the downloaded files from their embedded tags. I usually buy FLAC files and the tags I get from muletracks/nugs.net are always absolutely flawless.

The destination is where files are downloaded to. The Tagger takes files from there and renames them according to format to someplace below of the destination.

The main executable is muletracks. If you run it, it opens an interactive prompt. Supported commands are:

• login: explicitly try to log in. You may give username and password as arguments. Otherwise the configuration file is consulted and if that also fails, you are prompted for the credentials. All commands which require you to be logged in will call this command implicitly.

• list: lists all the available shows in your library with media ID, artist and title.

• download: downloads the given media IDs provided that they are available (non-expired) in your library. Each file is downloaded and immediately renamed by the Tagger (to avoid this, pass the --dry-tag option). With --cmus-add, all new files are added via cmus-remote -l to your cmus library.

• fetch: like download but does not run the Tagger.

• tag: takes all files in the destination folder (only immediate children) and renames them according to their tags and the format. Supports the --dry-run option to just print the destination filename without renaming the source file.

AUTHOR

Tobias Boege tobs@taboege.de

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (C) 2022 by Tobias Boege.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.