Have old iTunes playlists of songs you downloaded (and maybe named poorly)? Well, you probably don't but I did and my dad did so I made something.

This package converts iTunes playlists into Spotify playlists by searching Spotify for the songs in your iTunes playlist and adding them to a Spotify playlist. Works for most songs even if the name and artist are not written exactly how they appear in Spotify.

This project is in a live web app HERE. Code for the web app is in a separate repository.

Thanks to spotipy for making a python wrapper of the spotify API :)

1. Head over to itunes-to-spotify.herokuapp.com, log in, and get going!

1. Get spotify API credentials

   • Go to spotify developer and create credentials
   • Change the name of itunes_to_spotify/example_creds.py to itunes_to_spotify/creds.py and fill it in with the appropriate user info

2. Export iTunes playlist as text file:

   • Highlight playlist in iTunes
   • File > Library > Export Playlist
   • Export as Unicode text (this creates a tab-delimited .txt file of iTunes playlist)

3. Create Spotify playlist and get a URI

   • Create a Spotify playlist
   • Click the three dots icon
     • hover over "Share"
     • click copy spotify URI

4. Installation (either of the two options below)

# installation for command line version
$ pip install git+https://github.com/samryan18/itunes-to-spotify.git

# installation for local development
# -e is editable flag
$ git clone https://github.com/samryan18/itunes-to-spotify.git
$ pip install -e itunes-to-spotify

5. Run to Create New Playlist

$ itunes_to_spotify_new [OPTIONS]

# Example (run with arguments in one go):
$ itunes_to_spotify_new --verbose --playlist_name="awesome playlist" --playlist_desc="description" --filepath="path_to_textfile"

A link will open asking you to login and allow the app to access your playlists.

• Include --playlist_name="playlist_name" to specify name of new playlist
• Prompted for if not included

• Include --playlist_desc="playlist_desc" to specify description of new playlist
• Prompted for if not included

• Include --filepath="path_to_textfile" to specify filepath
• Prompted for if not included

• Flag for whether to print info about the run
• Include --verbose to run in this mode

• Run $ itunes_to_spotify_new --help for help.

$ itunes_to_spotify [OPTIONS]

# Example (run with arguments in one go):
$ itunes_to_spotify --verbose --playlist_uri="playlist_uri" --filepath="path_to_textfile"

A link will open asking you to login and allow the app to access your playlists.

• Include --playlist_uri="playlist_uri" to specify playlist URI
• Prompted for if not included

• Include --filepath="path_to_textfile" to specify filepath
• Prompted for if not included

• Flag for whether to print info about the run
• Include --verbose to run in this mode

• Run $ itunes_to_spotify --help for help.