audioport

audioport does everyday audio work on local files. It reads the facts ffprobe reports about a file — its format, duration, bit rate, sample rate, and channel count — converts between the common audio formats, cuts a segment out of a file starting at a chosen second, and normalizes loudness with ffmpeg's loudnorm filter. A fifth tool transcribes, but only through a transcription engine you configure yourself; audioport bundles no engine and invents no transcripts.

All processing runs through the ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries on the machine, invoked with argument arrays (never a shell), so those binaries must be installed for the processing tools to work. When they are missing, the binary's own error is returned instead of a made-up result.

Transcription

Transcription is delegated to a local command named by the AUDIOPORT_TRANSCRIBER_COMMAND environment variable. The command is run with the audio file path as its last argument, and its stdout is the transcript. For example:

export AUDIOPORT_TRANSCRIBER_COMMAND="whisper-cli --model base"

When the variable is unset, transcribe and the transcribe_audio tool fail with an error naming AUDIOPORT_TRANSCRIBER_COMMAND. There is no API key, no hosted service, and no fallback that guesses at the words.

Related MCP server: mcp-ffmpeg

Install

npx @reneturcios/audioport metadata song.mp3

Or run the container image:

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/audioport

The container defaults to the MCP server (see below) and bundles no ffmpeg/ffprobe; use a host install, or a derived image with ffmpeg installed, for the processing tools. Pass CLI arguments to use it as a CLI instead.

CLI

audioport metadata song.mp3
audioport convert song.wav song-out.mp3 mp3 --bitrate 192k
audioport trim song.mp3 clip.mp3 5 --duration 10
audioport normalize song.wav song-normalized.wav
audioport transcribe song.mp3 --language en

audioport --version

The convert command writes to the output path with its extension replaced by the target format when they differ (converting song-out.ogg to mp3 writes song-out.mp3). Supported formats: mp3, wav, ogg, flac, aac, m4a.

Each command prints its result as JSON. Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 when processing fails (including a missing transcription engine), 2 for usage errors.

MCP server

One bin serves both faces. The mcp subcommand starts a stdio MCP server:

npx -y @reneturcios/audioport mcp

MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "audioport": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/audioport", "mcp"],
      "env": { "AUDIOPORT_TRANSCRIBER_COMMAND": "whisper-cli --model base" }
    }
  }
}

Tools

Development

npm install
npm run build   # tsc -> dist/
npm test        # node test runner over test/*.test.ts, fake executors only
npm run dev     # run the CLI from source via tsx

License

MIT — see LICENSE.