PTHBetter is a script which automatically transcodes and uploads FLACs on PTH.

The following command will scan through every FLAC you have ever downloaded, determine which formats are needed, transcode the FLAC to each needed format, and upload each format to PTH -- automatically.

$ pthbetter

IF YOU HAVE A PREVIOUS VERSION OF WHATBETTER OR PTHBETTER, YOU NEED TO REMOVE ALL FILE.

BE CAREFUL, ON PTH V2 IS TOLERATE ONLY IF V0 DOESN'T EXIST. V2 IS TRUMPABLE WITH V0. PLEASE DON'T ADD V2 ON YOUR CONFIG FILE.

You're going to need to install a few dependencies before using PTHBetter.

First and foremost, you will need Python 2.7 or newer.

Once you've got Python installed, you will need a few modules: mechanize, mutagen, and requests. Try this as sudo/root:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Or without sudo:

$ pip install --user -r requirements.txt

Alternatively, if you have setuptools installed, you can do this (in the source directory):

$ python setup.py install

This should theoretically install all required dependencies automatically.

Furthermore, you need several external programs: mktorrent, flac, lame, and sox. The method of installing these programs varies depending on your operating system, but if you're using something like Ubuntu you can do this:

# aptitude install flac lame sox

or

# apt-get install flac lame sox

To install the lastest version of mktorrent, we need to remove the old version and clone the github repo in a dir and make / make install

With sudo:

$ sudo apt-get purge mktorrent
$ cd yourdir/
$ git clone https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent.git
$ cd mktorrent/
$ make
$ sudo make install

Without sudo:

$ cd yourdir
$ git clone https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent.git
$ cd mktorrent
$ make
$ echo 'export PATH=<path to mktorrent folder here>:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc; . ~/.bashrc

At this point you may execute the following command:

$ pthbetter

or

$ ./pthbetter

And you will receive a notification stating that you should edit the configuration file ~/.pthbetter/config (if you're lucky).

If you have an error, try to setup chmod 777 on all files, even may be directory

 $ chmod 777 *

You've made it far! Congratulations. Open up the file ~/.pthbetter/config in a text editor. You're going to see something like this:

[passtheheadphones]
username =
password = 
data_dir =
output_dir =
torrent_dir =
formats = flac, v0, 320,
media = sacd, soundboard, web, dvd, cd, dat, vinyl, blu-ray

username and password are your PTH login credentials. data_dir is the directory where your downloads are stored. output_dir is the directory where your transcodes will be created. If the value is blank, data_dir will be used. torrent_dir is the directory where torrents should be created (e.g., your watch directory). formats is a list of formats that you'd like to support (so if you don't want to upload V2, just remove it from this list). media is a list of lossless media types you want to consider for transcoding. The default value is all PTH lossless formats, but if you want to transcode only CD and vinyl media, for example, you would set this to 'cd, vinyl'

You should end up with something like this:

[passtheheadphones]
username = RequestBunny
password = clapton
data_dir = /srv/downloads
output_dir =
torrent_dir = /srv/torrents
formats = flac, v0, 320
media = cd, vinyl, web

Alright! Now you're ready to use PTHBetter.

usage: pthbetter [-h] [-s] [--config CONFIG] [--cache CACHE]
                  [release_urls [release_urls ...]]

positional arguments:
  release_urls     the URL where the release is located

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -s, --single     only add one format per release (useful for getting unique
                   groups)
  --config CONFIG  the location of the configuration file (default:
                   ~/.pthbetter/config)
  --cache CACHE    the location of the cache (default: ~/.pthbetter/cache)

You can turn pthbetter executable with the command:

$ chmod +x pthbetter

To transcode and upload every FLAC you've every downloaded (this may take a while):

$ pthbetter

or

$ ./pthbetter

To transcode and upload a specific release (provided you have already downloaded the FLAC and it is located in your data_dir):

$ pthbetter http://passtheheadphones.me/torrents.php?id=1000\&torrentid=1000000

or $ pthbetter "http://passtheheadphones.me/torrents.php?id=1000&torrentid=1000000"

or

$ ./pthbetter http://passtheheadphones.me/torrents.php?id=1000\&torrentid=1000000

or $ ./pthbetter "http://passtheheadphones.me/torrents.php?id=1000&torrentid=1000000"

Note that if you specify a particular release(s), pthbetter will ignore your configuration's media types and attempt to transcode the releases you have specified regardless of their media type (so long as they are lossless types).

If after this you have an issue to create torrent on ruTorrent, please check the file /rutorrent/plugins/create/conf.php and verify :

$ $pathToCreatetorrent = '';

of, it's not working

$pathToCreatetorrent = '/usr/local/bin/mktorrent';