#!/bin/bash IFS=$'\n\t' # Author: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38748#p414992 # m4bronto # https://gist.github.com/dcondrey/469e2850e7f88ac198e8c3ff111bda7c # Modified to support a chapters.txt file with sequential list of chapter names # Run as split-audio-by-chapters file.m4a [chapters.txt] # Output files are sequential and generated # https://stackoverflow.com/a/3352015 trim() { local var="$*" # remove leading whitespace characters var="${var#"${var%%[![:space:]]*}"}" # remove trailing whitespace characters var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}" echo -n "$var" } CHAPTER_INDEX=0 if [ -f "$2" ]; then echo "Reading chapters from $2" readarray CHAPTERS < "$2" IFS=$'\n\r' CHAPTERS_TITLES_LENGTH=${#CHAPTERS[@]} IFS=$'\n\t' fi ffmpeg -i "$1" 2> /tmp/ffmpeg.txt while read -r first _ _ start _ end; do unset IFS if [[ "$first" = "Chapter" ]]; then read read _ _ CHAPTER_TITLE CHAPTER_INDEX_PADDED=$(printf "%03d" "$CHAPTER_INDEX") # If we are using a chapters.txt that is valid if ((CHAPTERS_TITLES_LENGTH >= CHAPTER_INDEX)) ; then CHAPTER_TITLE=${CHAPTERS[$CHAPTER_INDEX]} fi FILENAME="${CHAPTER_INDEX_PADDED} - $(trim "$CHAPTER_TITLE").m4a" ffmpeg -vsync 2 -i "$1" -ss "${start%?}" -to "$end" -vn -acodec copy "$FILENAME"