YTMusic Helper

Simple script to sync local music directory with user library on YTmusic, and manage playlists if you follow a very constrained naming convention. All the heavy lifting is done by this package.

Authentication

You must manually create the headers_auth.json file referenced in the ytmusic.py script. This is explained in the link to the package above. The key thing to note is that the HTTP cookie in the headers file will be valid for min(approx 2 years, while logged in).

Tags

The tagging convention to use is as follows:

• Use square brackets to delimit playlist 'tags', followed by ".mp3".
• Use single lowercase characters to identify playlists.

For example, a local file "my_song [ad].mp3" will be added to playlists "a" and "d" in your Youtube Music library. All the necessary playlist creation/deletion is handled by the script.

Execution

See Abseil to understand the command line arguments. Most likely, run with:

python3 main.py --sync_library --sync_playlists --noconfirm

Note:

• It will create a log file in the working directory.
• Currently, you have to update the library if updating the playlists. i.e. --nosync_library --sync_playlists will be bad :(

TODOs

• Don't delete the files and re-upload when playlist tags change.
• Fix the flushing on command line.
• Handle non-mp3 files.