go.shabbyrobe.org/musefuse

MuseFUSE: Browse your music by tag using the filesystem

This was a fun little Sunday hack to make a read-only FUSE filesystem for exploring tagged music files.

Basically I made it because I have a rather large mess on my hands here and wanted to explore the data before I started to autotag everything, plus I wanted to see how hard it was to use FUSE in Go (answer: not very, though the docs are a bit pants).

Unfortunately, now I have two messes - this prototype has been really useful, so now I have to clean up the code too!

Prerequisites:

• Go 1.26
• MacFUSE if running on macOS

To install on Ubuntu:

go install go.shabbyrobe.org/musefuse/cmd/musefuse@latest

I've been using a mount point in /media/$USER because it shows up in Nautilus, YMMV:

sudo mkdir -p "/media/$USER/muse"
sudo chown "$USER:$USER" "/media/$USER/muse"

Now mount the thing:

musefuse fs -mount "/media/$USER/muse" -path ~/music/

On macOS, I created the mountpoint in /Volumes and that worked with Finder no problem.

Now you can explore!

$ ls /media/bl/muse
artist  artistalbum  failed  genre  unsorted  year

$ ls /media/bl/muse/year
1984  1987  1990  1993  1996  1999  2002  2005  2008  2011  2014  2017

It's a bit easier than I'd like at the moment for the program to shut down before closing the mount. If you have a stray mount on your hands, just umount it and you're good to go:

sudo umount "/media/$USER/muse"

Here's what I plan to add:

• Finish the playlist handling
• Config files
• Multiple databases with configurable file extensions
• Make the webserver a bit better for exploring the metadata
• Re-scan databases periodically
• Trigger re-scan
• "Complete albums" - when tags have Tracks set, and all tracks are found.

Here's what I won't add:

• Something like fsnotify or watcher; I tried it and it was way too janky and I lost a lot of time that could've been better spent on the other list.

Notes

Generic libs:

• https://godoc.org/github.com/wtolson/go-taglib (cgo)

ID3:

• https://github.com/bogem/id3v2
• https://github.com/mikkyang/id3-go