beets-PlaylistConverter

You often switch between filesystems? Your favourite music player does not support a specific path type in .m3u files?

With this beets plugin you can convert playlists to three other formats. It supports the posix-style path format of /foo/bar, the ntfs-style of C:\foo\bar and their uri counterparts, so file:///foo/bar and file:///C:/foo/bar.

Getting Started

You will need Python <= 3.9.0 and the bleeding edge version of beets.

$ python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade https://github.com/repos/beetbox/beets/tarball/master beets-playlistconverter

Then, enable the plugin. You may use the beet config --edit command to add the playlistconverter plugin to the configuration.

plugins: … playlistconverter

Now, you can further configure the plugin or start using it.

Configuration

The following sample configuration snippet shows the available options. Where to place this snippet in the config.yaml is shown here

playlistconverter:
  auto: no
  source_dir: posix
  types: ntfs uriposix urintfs
  playlist_posix: /foo/bar
  playlist_ntfs: /foo/barNTFS
  playlist_uriposix: /foo/barURIPOSIX
  playlist_urintfs: /foo/barURINTFS

• auto

  Can be either yes or no (True or False). It configures the automated call of the plugin after an import of any kind. This way, if any of the playlists in the source directory have changed due to database changes, the playlists will be converted again.

• source_dir

  Configures the source directory type of your playlists. This does not define the actual path, only the type. Can be either posix or ntfs depending on your OS. Default is to get the current OS and set the type accordingly (it would be wise to set this by hand).

• types

  Will define a default set of type to convert to. This is a space seperated list of the following values: posix ntfs uriposix urintfs. The order does actually matter, the type named first will be also be converted first (Although this doesn't really make a siginificant difference). By default all available types except for the one defined in source_dir are included.

• playlist_*

  Next the different options for playlist paths. These start with playlist_ and end in one of the possible formats. All of these are paths. By default the playlist_ path with the source_dir type is the path defined in the playlist plugin configuration. Then all other types will get the same path with their respective type appended.

It is recommended to also enable the playlist plugin and configure both to the same directory. This way the playlist plugin will keep your source playlists up to date and the playlistconverter will convert the files.

Usage

$ beet plcv -h

Shows help for all available commands -h / --help.

$ beet plcv -c -s [OPTIONS]

Show changes made between different format conversions -c / --show-changes. To show no output except for errors use -q / --quiet.

Importing

$ beet plcv -i -f FILENAME -p FILEPATH -a

Import a file or directory -p / --path to one or multiple files in the source directory -f / --file. If importing to an existing source file (or importing a folder), specify -a / --append to append to the existing file instead of overwriting.
Multiple values for FILEPATH and FILENAME are also possible, use , as a seperator.

Exporting

$ beet plcv -e

Defining no other options will read the Configuration and export all formats (except the sources format) to the specified directorys, overwriting existing files.

$ beet plcv -e -f FILENAME -p FILEPATH -t TYPES

Export a source file -f / --filename to one or multiple folders or files -p / --path. Specify formats to export with -t / --types (see Configuration - Types for possible values).
Multiple values for FILENAME and FILEPATH are also possible, use , as a seperator. When multiple FILEPATHs are defined, then each will be associated with a type.

Feature Requests / Bug reports

If you have an idea or a use case this plugin is missing or even found a bug, feel free to open an issue.

Planned additions

The following is a list of possible additions to the plugin.

• Checking for write times in the source directory. Ignore files that haven't changed and add commandline switch to force reading / writing
• Support relative paths in .m3u files
• Add extended m3u support
• m3u8 support / saving instead of m3u?

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Moritz Grede

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