Introduction

watermark is a simple (offline & non-AI) audio watermarking tool made in Python.

I initially created this script as a personal project, for generating watermarked audio clips of my music work to share with clients during the production stage of a commission project. Over time, it became an entity of its own, so even though I'm not a programmer by any means, I figured I might as well release it and hopefully it will help you in your work as well!

Installation

Simply copy-paste the following command in Terminal:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yioannides/watermark/main/install.sh | bash

Usage

Initial launch

You will first need to initialize the watermark script by typing watermark -r / --reset and adding the watermark file you'll be using, like so:

user@desktop:~$ watermark -r /home/user/Music/clips/watermark1.wav

Tip

You can change your watermark file any time!

Functions

1. Watermarking audio files from multiple locations:

user@desktop:~$ watermark '/home/user/Music/songs/save me.wav'
'/home/user/Downloads/untitled-pop1.wav' '/mnt/cloud/archive/charlie-take1-live.mp3'

3 FILE(S) PROCESSED SUCCESFULLY:
save me.wav
untitled-pop1.wav
charlie-take1-live.mp3

^{* The modified files will be located at the original file's location}

2. Watermarking every audio file in the present working directory via *:

user@desktop:/home/Music/songs/$ watermark *

4 FILE(S) PROCESSED SUCCESFULLY:
save me.wav
passing by.mp3
shape of your heart.mp3
kelly clark - going forward.flac

3. Change the interval between watermarks:

user@desktop:~$ watermark -i 7
Watermark interval updated to 7 seconds!

^{NOTE: Any audio files below 5 seconds will have one watermark in the middle.}

Still feeling lost? You can always access the help page by typing watermark -h / --help!

Acknowledgments

Mohammed Agoor for providing the core idea for this script: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78036523/optimizing-audio-watermarking-function-in-python