So, after seeing the process begin to get somewhat convoluted for our uploading of music to Da Stank Bank I decided there must be a better way to go about doing this stuff.

The current process goes somewhat like this:

  • Open premiere.
    • Add our background image.
    • Add the mp3 file in an audio track.
    • Change the background image’s length to match the audio track.
    • Render (or queue) the file to be made into a video (usually an .flv).
  • Go to youtube.
    • Upload the video(s).
    • Enter all the information: title, tags, description, etc…
    • Wait for it to process and get the embed code.
  • Go to our blog.
    • Write a new post.
    • Add the same title, same tags, etc…
    • Set it’s category (dub/dnb/etc…)
    • Add the album art, and our embedded video below.
    • Save and publish the post.

As you can see, this can be quite the lengthy process for each video. So I figured I should be able to create my own program to make this easier.

My intended work flow would try to simplify a lot of the processes. So far, I see it working something like this:

  • Open program
    • If it’s the first time, put in your youtube+wordpress login info
  • Add all the mp3 files to be converted
  • Set the background image
  • For each mp3 file, enter the main information (extracting from ID3 tags first if possible). This includes:
    • Artist name, song title, album art, tags (using the tags from wordpress), category (using the categories from wordpress), background image (defaulting to a single image to be used on all tracks but can be changed for individual songs if required.)
  • Click a button to render+upload.
    • The program will then render all the files to videos, upload them to youtube and fill in all data, get the embed code and make a wordpress post with all data as well.

Seems a hell of a lot simpler to me.

I started work on this last night, and so far I’ve got a basic program I’ve written up in C#. Right now it has the functionality there to be able to convert batches of mp3s to video files (I’m using windows media 9 to convert to wmv files – can’t seem to figure out how to make it an FLV file.) It also already logs in to your youtube account and I can get data from there, but haven’t figured out the uploading yet.

All in all, I figure this would make a cool week-long-ish project for me to do during the break so we’ll see how it goes :)

Possibly related posts:

  1. Da Stank Bank Uploader – progress!