I managed to add effectively full (for the program’s purposes anyways) youtube support to the program now. So it’ll batch render the mp3s to videos, and then upload all of them to youtube. The user can choose a youtube description for each file or just use the default one, as well as tags, the youtube category (synch’d with their schema), tags, etc…

Next up is figuring out the wordpress API to make posts on there, changing album art and video art per file. I might also decide to change the way it uploads the file to youtube and do it manually instead of using their .net library so I can add a progress bar but that would come after I’ve finished the more necessary features.

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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

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