Faircamp: Static site generator for audio producers

This looks so good I've got to upvote it before trying it.

Looking forward to experimenting with it :)

Simply awesome, deserves attention.

Started trying it in Windows 11 and there was a commonly-seen dependency on vcruntime140.dll, which will not be there on all freshly installed Windows volumes unless you have already installed another C++ app that autoinstalls this DLL, or you can install the Visual C++ update manually if Windows Update does not do it for you.

Not really a problem.

After that I think faircamp was running as designed.

I already had music files on a USB stick organized exactly like the example so it really was off to a good start.

For Windows on dedicated storage like this I recommend assigning it to be the M:\ volume so you know where your music is. But each different USB stick will automatically get a different letter besides M. So when I change sticks (different genres etc.) I then set the new one to M manually, and have previously been working with the same access scripts to an extent.

Now faircamp is a superb process and there are features I look forward to using, I have cover art but I had not entered any text description for any album on the USB device. There was a notice for each album as the links were building, about the missing description, but no big deal the process continued for a number of albums.

And then it halted. But I wouldn't consider it a bug or even a defect at all. Maybe a deficiency which is easy to work around, but all day I haven't had time to do it.

What happened is I have artists with all unique names, and some of them have more than one album, which works good too. The problem was with artists whose album has no name. So I have always put the year it came out instead of an actual album name. As soon as faircamp encountered the second album with an identical name to one it had already handled, it halted. Naturally these were two different albums (having the same name) from different artists, in different folders.

All I have to do is go back into my music folders and make sure no two album names are identical and it will probably be OK.

I don't expect I will see two different artists with the exact same name, and I would probably notice that right away if Windows didn't notice it first. I also wonder what would happen if two different mp3s having the same name from different artists and/or different albums were there. This would be more likely since different bands often play the same song their own way, sometimes the same year.

Overall, excellent effort already, I'm sure I can get it to work.

Something else I thought of, when the build stopped after only a few albums it would have been cool if the site was complete in all other respects anyway. So if the build halts the site would still work with at least a few artists. It may not be easy, but if there is something wrong with any one file it may be best to just skip that file, album, or artist for that to happen.

Not the least bit disappointed though, this is already an effort to be proud of.

Windows itself has a lot more show-stoppers, what made me into a headbanger is bare metal. Without much doublebass, the kind that bangs his head on the keyboard :\