RED_OPS_Better

Introduction

Autonomous transcoder for Redacted or Orpheus

red_ops_better is a script which automatically transcodes and uploads these files to Redacted, Orpheus or DIC.

The following command will scan through every FLAC you have ever downloaded or uploaded (if it is in , determine which formats are needed, transcode the FLAC to each needed format, and upload each format to Redacted, Orpheus or DIC, automatically.

$ ./red_ops_better

Installation

You're going to need to install a few dependencies before using red_ops_better.

First and foremost, you will need Python 3.6 or newer. NOTE: this version has been ported to Python 3.x and will not run under Python 2.x.

Once you've got Python installed, you will need a few modules: mechanize, mutagen, and requests. Try this:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

If you are on a seedbox, or a system without root priviliages, try this:

$ pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

Furthermore, you need several external programs: mktorrent 1.1+, flac, lame, and sox. The method of installing these programs varies depending on your operating system, but if you're using something like Ubuntu you can do this:

# apt install mktorrent flac lame sox

If you are on a seedbox and you lack the privilages to install packages, you could contact your provider to have these packages installed.

Configuration

You've made it far! Congratulations. Open up the file config in a text editor.

• username and password are your Redacted and Orpheus login credentials(Not required if using session_cookie).
• session_cookie working session cookie for tracker of your choice.
• data_dir is the directory where your downloads are stored.
• output_dir is the directory where your transcodes will be created. If the value is blank, data_dir will be used. You can also specify per format values such as output_dir_320 or output_dir_v0.
• torrent_dir is the directory where torrents should be created (e.g., your watch directory). Same per format settings as output_dir apply.
• formats is a list of formats that you'd like to support.
• media is a list of lossless media types you want to consider for transcoding. The default value is all What.CD lossless formats, but if you want to transcode only CD and vinyl media, for example, you would set this to 'cd, vinyl'.
• 24bit_behaviour defines what happens when the program encounters a FLAC that it thinks is 24bits. If it is set to '2', every FLAC that has a bits- per-sample property of 24 will be silently re-categorized. If it set to '1', a prompt will appear. The default is '0' which ignores these occurrences.
• tracker is the base url to use in the torrent files.
• api is the base url to use for api requests.
• source source flag for tracker.
• piece_length used with MKtorrent default value.

Usage

usage: red_ops_better [-h] [-s] [-j THREADS] [--config CONFIG] [--cache CACHE]
                      [-U] [-E] [-S] [-t TOTP] [-T TRACKER]
                      [release_urls [release_urls ...]]

positional arguments:
  release_urls          the URL where the release is located (default: None)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s, --single          only add one format per release (useful for getting
                        unique groups) (default: False)
  -j THREADS, --threads THREADS
                        number of threads to use when transcoding (default: 3)
  --config CONFIG       the location of the configuration file (default:
                        $PROJECT_FOLDER/config)
  --cache CACHE         the location of the cache (default:
                        $PROJECT_FOLDER/cache)
  -U, --no-upload       don't upload new torrents (in case you want to do it
                        manually) (default: False)
  -E, --no-24bit-edit   don't try to edit 24-bit torrents mistakenly labeled
                        as 16-bit (default: False)
  -S, --skip            treats a torrent as already processed (default: False)
  -t TOTP, --totp TOTP  time based one time password for 2FA (default: None)
  -T TRACKER, --tracker TRACKER
                        pick your tracker for transcoding (choose from RED or
                        OPS) (default: RED)

Examples

To transcode and upload every snatch you've ever downloaded along with all your uploads (this may take a while):

For RED

$ ./red_ops_better

For OPS

$ ./red_ops_better -T OPS

To transcode and upload a specific release (provided you have already downloaded the FLAC and it is located in your data_dir):

For RED:

$ ./red_ops_better "https://redacted.ch/torrents.php?id=1391069&torrentid=3095859"

For OPS

$ ./red_ops_better -T OPS "https://orpheus.network/torrents.php?id=137293&torrentid=269985"

Note that if you specify a particular release(s), red_ops_better will ignore your configuration's media types and attempt to transcode the releases you have specified regardless of their media type (so long as they are lossless types).

Your first time running red_ops_better might take a while, but after it has successfully gone through and checked everything, it'll go faster any consecutive runs due to its caching method.

If you like to use this for OPS as default. Open red_ops_better and search for "default='RED'" and replace RED to OPS.