Clean Up A USB Thumb Drive

Honda's audio system is awfully brittle against macOS metadata: Just the presence of dotfiles seems to prevent the audio system from recognizing and playing music from a USB drive. This script/package provides a script cleanusb that removes the stuff that was confusing my car's audio engine.

Specifically, the tool:

• Removes LOST.DIR
• Removes .Spotlight-V100 (NOTE: This requires sudo)
• Applies dot_clean to deal with macOS-native resources.
• Removes additional dotfiles and directories, like .DS_Store, .fseventsdb/, et al.
• Organizes the music into an Album / Artist directory structure.

Installation

$ git clone
pip install .

The script requires Python 3.10+, but only because that's what I'm using at the moment. It could certainly be pushed down a few versions.

Development

The project uses Poetry, so just poetry install to get started.