A script to help you zip playlists.

Homepage: http://bitbucket.org/quodlibetor/zipls

To make this work best you want to have pip (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip) installed, although technically it is possible to install it without it.

From a terminal, (Terminal.app if you're on a Mac, or whatever turns you on) after installing pip, do:

sudo pip install argparse mutagen zipls

That should do it. If it doesn't, please contact me.

After installation there should be a program zipls that you can run. Run it.

That is to say that, in general, if you run zipls without any arguments it will give you a gui.

If you run it from a command line with playlist files as arguments, you can give it the -g switch to make it still run in graphical mode. All arguments given to the command line should still apply even if run in graphics mode.

Typically:

zipls PLAYLIST.pls

that'll generate a zip file PLAYLIST.zip with a folder PLAYLIST inside of it with all the songs pointed to by PLAYLIST.pls.

And of course:

zipls --help

works. (Did you think I was a jerk?)

Basically all you care about is the Songs class from zipls. It takes a path, or list of paths, to a playlist and knows how to zip them:

from zipls import Songs

songs = Songs("path/to/playlist.m3u")

# __init__ just goes through add():
songs.add("path/to/another/playlist.xspf")
# lists of paths also work:
songs.add(['another.pls', 'something/else.m3u'])

songs.zip_em('path/to/zipcollection')

First of all, just email me with an example of the playlist that you want zipls to parse and I'll do it. But if you want to not monkey-patch it:

If you want to add a new playlist format with extension EXT: subclass Songs and implement a function _songs_from_EXT(self, 'path/to/pls') that expects to receive a path to the playlist.

Similarly, if you want to add audio format reading capabilities subclass Song (singular) and create a _set_artist_from_EXT, where EXT is the extension of the music format you want to add. You'll also need to initialize Songs with your new song class.

So if I wanted to add .spf playlists and .mus audio:

class MusSong(zipls.Song):
    def _set_artist_from_mus(self):
        # and then probably:
        from mutagen.mus import Mus
        self.artist = Mus(self.path)['artist'][0]
class SpfSongs(zipls.Songs):
    def _songs_from_spf(self, playlist):
        # add songs

songs = SpfSongs('path/to/playlist', MusSong)

playlist formats:

• .pls
• .xspf
• .m3u

A variety of common audio formats. (Ogg Vorbis, MP3/4, FLAC...) Basically everything supported by mutagen should work

My name's Brandon, email me at quodlibetor@gmail.com, and the project home page is http://bitbucket.org/quodlibetor/zipls .

Basically do whatever you want, and if you make something way better based on this, lemme know.

Copyright (C) 2010 Brandon W Maister quodlibetor@gmail.com

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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