Reel2Bits

Versions requirement

• Python >= 3.6 (all under 3.6 are not supported)

Installation

Install a BDD (mysql is supported, SQLite maybe, PostgreSQL should be)
Makes sure that encoding is/will be in UNICODE/UTF-8
git clone http://dev.sigpipe.me/dashie/reel2bits
cd reel2bits
git submodule init
git submodule update
pip3 install --requirement requirements.txt  # if present
# Install Pydub dependencies: https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub#dependencies
cp config.py.sample config.py
$EDITOR config.py
export FLASK_ENV=<development or production>
$ create your postgresql database, like 'reel2bits'
$ with the postgresql shell, run using superuser on the reel2bits database:
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "uuid-ossp";
flask db upgrade
flask dbseed
flask run
Don't forget to update default Config by getting to "Your user" (top right) then "Config"

Also install this tool : https://github.com/bbc/audiowaveform
And adapt the path to it in config.py

Creating an user

If you have enabled registration in config, the first user registered will be ADMIN !

Or if you have disabled registration, use the flask createuser command to create an user.

Production running

TODO

Docker

TODO

Default config

• App Name: My reel2bits instance

Workers

Run the workers using:

$ dramatiq workers -Q <queue name>

See also ‘dramatiq --help’ for all config (threads etc.) infos

List of queues and descriptions:

• upload_workflow : handle metadatas and transcoding after upload

TODO

• Transcode and serve FLAC as MP3 CBR (HTML5 doesn't support FLAC)
• Transcode only for waveform OGG to MP3 CBR (audiowaveform doesn't support OGG)
• ActivityPub support is near zero; Only incoming following is handled, and it doesn't works with most of the other AP softwares....

Licensing

• MIT License

Others projects inspired from

• https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub from Little-Boxes
• https://funkwhale.audio