So here’s the thing: iTunes will let you export a playlist as plain(ish) text. This script will:
- Parse that playlist file
- Remove from it any tracks that are already on your Android *
- Work out if your Android has enough free space to accommodate the new tracks
- Push the tracks to the Android
This is not limited to Android, of course: any mp3 player that shows up as an external storage device (i.e. most things that aren’t iPods) will work. You can edit conf/config.cfg or set some command line flags to specify the mountpoint at which your device shows up and the path where it stores its music.
* The duplicate-detection will fail if you’ve previously transferred music to your player from somewhere other than your iTunes media tree (I’m not a magician).
The code:
- Stable(ish) release: http://svn.cruft.co/code/itunestoandroid/tags/alpha-0.1/
- (Probably broken) trunk: http://svn.cruft.co/code/itunestoandroid/trunk/
Check it out, then run it as ./iTunes-to-Android.py -h to see the available options, or ./iTunes-to-Android.py <playlist_file.txt> to actually transfer some music.
Todo (if I can be arsed):
- Generalise the playlist class then subclass it to handle playlists from Amarok, Exaile etc
- Clean up some sub-optimal hacks I threw in to get the damn thing working
This started as a little bash script, but inevitably it’s grown into a massively over-engineered solution to a trivial problem. But hey, I like writing code, and this one may actually have some practical purpose.
