Arrivals (for MacOS)

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

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