About Albumus Audio Compiler
A Note from the Author
Over the years, I’ve found myself repeatedly going through the same tedious process: setting metadata for music files, adding album art, and trying to make sure everything looked and sounded clean across multiple formats. More than a decade ago, I used tools like Windows Media Player and later iTunes to handle this. But doing it track by track — copying and pasting the same album or artist info over and over — was incredibly time-consuming.
Eventually, I started writing small Python scripts to speed things up. They helped, but every time I needed to process a new batch of songs, I had to open the script, change variables, paths, or filenames, and re-run it. It worked, but it wasn’t ideal. It wasn’t repeatable, and it definitely wasn’t efficient.
That’s where this project — Albumus Audio Compiler — comes in.
I created Albumus so I could organize my input files and metadata once and then compile them automatically with a single script or a simple button click. Now, instead of manually tagging songs or rewriting hardcoded scripts, I just structure my input folders, drop in my metadata files, and let Albumus handle the rest.
It embeds album art, fills in track titles, artists, album names, dates, and more — all based on reusable JSON files. It supports multiple formats like MP3, FLAC, OGG, and WAV, and produces clean, organized output folders that are ready to archive, publish, or listen to.
What started as a tool just for me has turned into something that I think others might find useful too — whether you're preserving old recordings, organizing your personal library, or preparing music for release.
I hope Albumus helps you save time and keep your audio projects organized, just like it has for me.
- James Steele Seeley