useful to create .m3u with uncompressed disks, for retroarch emulators using multi-disk (i.e. lr-vice, lr-puae, ...) given the fact the current implementation do not support mounting compressed disks from Disk Control.
usage:
➜ misc (master) ✔ ../mkm3u/mkm3u.sh
extract all files matching substring and create .m3u
usage: ./mkm3u/mkm3u.sh -f <path/to/substring> -d </path/to/destination folder where to write the .m3u> [-n m3u name]
[-u desume -d by path at -f] [-x delete folder specified by -d first] [-s to skip extract for already unzipped discs]
[-m include only files matching mask, i.e. *.zip] [-l limit to n entries, i.e. 10]
if -n is not provided, the provided substring is the name of the generated .m3uexamples:
➜ mkm3u (master) ✗ ls -l ~/Downloads/test
total 1120
-rwxrwxrwx 1 valerino staff 66032 24 Dec 1996 1.000 Miglia (1992)(Simulmondo)(Side A)[cr F4CG].zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 valerino staff 63034 24 Dec 1996 1.000 Miglia (1992)(Simulmondo)(Side A)[cr ICS].zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 valerino staff 161857 24 Dec 1996 1.000 Miglia (1992)(Simulmondo)(Side A)[cr NEI - ICS].zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 valerino staff 56362 24 Dec 1996 1.000 Miglia (1992)(Simulmondo)(Side B)[cr F4CG].zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 valerino staff 74817 24 Dec 1996 1.000 Miglia (1992)(Simulmondo)(Side B)[cr ICS].zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 valerino staff 56384 24 Dec 1996 1.000 Miglia (1992)(Simulmondo)(Side B)[cr NEI - ICS].zip
-rw------- 1 valerino staff 56231 17 Mar 15:43 Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts)(Side A).d64.zip
-rw------- 1 valerino staff 21043 17 Mar 15:43 Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts)(Side B).d64.zip
# extracting zips
➜ mkm3u (master) ✗ ./mkm3u.sh -f ~/Downloads/test/Seven\ Cities\ of\ Gold\ \(1984\)\(Electronic\ Arts\) -d ~/Downloads/game -x
[.] extracting all files matching /Users/valerino/Downloads/test/Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts) to /Users/valerino/Downloads/game
[.] generating m3u: /Users/valerino/Downloads/game/Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts).m3u
[.] done!
➜ mkm3u (master) ✗ cat /Users/valerino/Downloads/game/Seven\ Cities\ of\ Gold\ \(1984\)\(Electronic\ Arts\).m3u
/Users/valerino/Downloads/game/Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts)(Side A).d64
/Users/valerino/Downloads/game/Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts)(Side B).d64
# do not extract, use sources directly
➜ mkm3u (master) ✗ ./mkm3u.sh -f ~/Downloads/test/Seven\ Cities\ of\ Gold\ \(1984\)\(Electronic\ Arts\) -d ~/Downloads/game -x -s
[.] generating m3u: /Users/valerino/Downloads/game/Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts).m3u
[.] done!
➜ mkm3u (master) ✗ cat /Users/valerino/Downloads/game/Seven\ Cities\ of\ Gold\ \(1984\)\(Electronic\ Arts\).m3u
/Users/valerino/Downloads/test/Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts)(Side B).d64.zip
/Users/valerino/Downloads/test/Seven Cities of Gold (1984)(Electronic Arts)(Side A).d64.zip- needs rooted device and a terminal emulator (of course!)
- copy the script to /data/local/tmp and use from there.
- /data/local/tmp must be writable: su -c chmod 777 /data/local/tmp
no checks are made regarding the .zips content, make sure to use zips containing each exactly ONE disk image (TOSEC collections are one zip/one disc already).
to add a newly created .m3u to your gamelists just by commandline, first rescrape the given platform using scrape.sh:
~ ./scrape.sh -u user:pwd -p c64 -a "*.m3u" -s -l
. using commandline: /opt/retropie/supplementary/skyscraper/Skyscraper --verbosity 3 -p c64 --addext *.m3u --relative
# ....then use fix_gamelist.py:
~ ./fix_gamelist.py --xml /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/c64/gamelist.xml --fix_m3u_from_input
# ....in the end you will have your gamelist.xml with just the .m3u without the separated entries.