Arrivals-osx NPM

Arrivals (for MacOS)

npm release

Arrivals will watch a directory and convert or copy a variety of incoming audio or video files for you then place them somewhere you choose. This only works with MacOS and the primary use-case is incoming torrents in flac or mkv formats that you'd like to play nice in an Apple ecosystem.

Requires node.js 8.0.0 or greater!

Features

Watch many directories
Register as launchdaemon
Converts 'flac', 'mp3', 'mp4', 'm4a' that are well-formed into ALAC/M4A
Can copy video & audio files to a destination directory
Easy usage
Status visibility through Finder tagging of source files

Installaion

npm install arrivals-osx -g

Use

Launch the installer to build your plist and start the launchdaemon.

$ arrivals install

Required system libraries

node.js >= 12.0.0
ffmpeg - brew install ffmpeg
atomicparsley - brew install atomicparsley
tag - brew install tag

Full command list

$ arrivals [command]

Command	Description
watch	Run the process directly, you'll want to set the env vars.
install	Interactive install as a system daemon

How it works

Launches watcher for a directory
Builds existing paths database
When events occur, evaluate against criterion
- is correct event
- is proper extension
- is not in existing paths db
Push to work queue
Add a Yellow "pending" tag for Finder
Do work, either copy or convert
Add a Green tag for "finished" or a Red tag for "error" in Finder