Import playlists from directory

[ReIaxo]

Hi, I know it is a little bit out of scope for this project but would it be much work for you to adjust you playlist import script a little to import all playlists from a directory to strawberry (starred)?

I searched the strawberry forum and many people are in search for such a feature, but unfortunately the maintainer has no time for such features. Maybe you can help out?

PS: The other way around, save/export multiple playlists at once is also much wanted. But this is not so ease I think.

[leighsmith]

Certainly if there are many playlists within the single iTunes XML file exported, all of those will be imported. If I understand you correctly, you want to be able to import multiple iTunes exported XML files, all within a single directory? Each of those could contain multiple playlists. In principle that's fairly straightforward to add, but I wanted to fully comprehend the requirement first?

[ReIaxo]

Oh sorry, forgot to mention that I have m3u playlists right now. In future I plan to switch to XSPF. So no relation to iTunes. That was what I meant with "out of scope for this project".

[leighsmith]

Ahh, ok that clears up some confusion! In principle, it should be fairly straightforward to whip up a different script to do what you want. I'm not familiar with XSPF. Do you want to convert your playlists to Strawberry from m3u or from XSPF?

[ReIaxo]

I think XSPF is better. Then I convert all m3u playlists I have to it and can then import them.
I don't think you have to go through the whole specification. Strawberry just needs the location of the media file, I think. And XSPF is just XML, so reading it should be simple. There should be a python library?

And for me it only have to work with local files. No streams or such.

[ReIaxo]

I have implemented the m3u part by myself with a little help from chatgpt. Hope that's ok. For my 100+ playlists with 11k songs in sum it works fine. Should I fork and create a pull request?