poanchen / google-play-music-playlist-exporter

A Google Chrome Extension that will help user to export their playlist and allowing potential import into other music service (such as Spotify) with a click of a button.

google-play-music-playlist-exporter v0.0.1

A Google Chrome Extension that will help user to export their playlist and allowing potential import into other music service (such as Spotify) with a click of a button.

Demo

Why is this useful?

It can be tough/uneasy to manually move all your favorite music in your playlist from one service to another one. To make user's life a lot easier. This Google Chrome Extension will help user to export their music playlist with a click of a button.

Getting Started

Installation

git clone https://github.com/poanchen/google-play-music-playlist-exporter.git
cd google-play-music-playlist-exporter

Next, if you are on Mac OSX or Linux. Run the downloadImmutableJS bash script, (to download the ImmutableJS script)

./downloadImmutableJS.sh

Otherwise, you must download the immutableJS library from https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/immutable/3.8.1/immutable.min.js and save it into the directory.

Then, you must manually add the Chrome Extension in your Chrome.

Disclaimer

Some of the code was derived and inspired from export_google_music.js by jmiserez.

google-play-music-playlist-exporter's Issues

Spotify normally put feat artist name as part of the artist

For example song Latch by Disclosure feat by Sam Smith with album go by Settle has difference format in Google Play Music and Spotify.

In Google Play Music, it goes by this
Title: Latch (feat. Sam Smith)
Artist: Disclosure
Album: Settle

In Spotify, it goes by this
Title: Latch
Artist: Disclosure, Sam Smith
Album: Settle

Playlist in Spotify Empty

Firstly, great idea!

I tried to use it and the extension detects the songs and creates a playlist in sportify with a correct name, but sadly, it is empty.
Any ideas if I'm doing anything wrong?

[WARNING] TypeError: Cannot read property 'uri' of undefined

(copied directly from #1)

I found that [WARNING] TypeError: Cannot read property 'uri' of undefined is happening because of the upper problem.
It seems like there is an issue with reading the large number of songs (like your case), and the song's title is wrong which lead to the search failure. If the search fails, the array that contains the information of the songs will not have the field which leads to undefined of the uri field. (it would have been fine if the search was okay). I am still looking into it to fix it.

Index for title, artist, album should be determined before assigning

(copied directly from #1)

A bit more investigation on this, wrong reading of songs where it thought the song duration is the title of the song could be caused by the code in content.js.
songs = songs.set(id, Immutable.Map({ title: songsFromPlaylistInHtml[i].childNodes[1].textContent.trim(), artist: songsFromPlaylistInHtml[i].childNodes[3].textContent.trim(), album: songsFromPlaylistInHtml[i].childNodes[4].textContent.trim() }));
In the code, we simply assume that index 1 is the title, index 3 is the artist, and index 4 is the album. However, what we should really do here is to determine the order first and then use it. (so that the index of the attribute will be dynamic instead of hard-coded which will probably solve your problem.

song format with multiple (feat) artist

song does not work well when
ArtistA & ArtistB where should be ArtistA, ArtistB
ArtistA feat. ArtistB where should be ArtistA, ArtistB
ArtistA, ArtistA, ArtistB, ArtistC, ArtistB where duplicates should omitted.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests)

(copied directly from #1)

Okay, I had more than 500 songs in my Google music playlist and it seems to be reading correctly. However, the importing to the Spotify failed due to Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests). I might have to add a timeout to delay each requests. (gotta work on that later)

song with title that includes Explicit word

for example, Wicked Games (Explicit) - The Weekend
the spotify does not include the Explicit word in there

Might need to encode some character for search query as some artist name is foreign and not entirely English

For example, song by Eminem and feat by Beyoncé, walk on water.