Playlist Export Script

[flat-herc]

Hi,
i've build a small Java Application to export all my Subsonic playlists to m3u files on my fileshare. Seen that many guys are searching for such a script so i've attached the code. If you call the Script via Console without Parameters, you'll get a small help. Some parts of the code are dirty hack, but it works In line 57 i'm just modifying the path, as the path is different when i access the playlist via fileshare. I've outcommented this part but you can edit it as you want to.

Greetings
flat-herc

[daneren2005]

I'm going to have to try this on a daily cron job. Thanks for sharing!

[flat-herc]

Pretty much the same what i'am doing with it. I'm using a Cron Job to serve my DLNA Server with the playlist files.

Had some issues with Character Encoding (as always ). Fixed it in the attached file.

[Jägs]

Pardon my ignorance, but how does one "run" this? I tried doing:

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java SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb.java

but I received an error:

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb/java
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb.java
   at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
   at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Could not find the main class: SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb.java. Program will exit.


What am I doing wrong? I'm running Subsonic on Ubuntu 13.04, if that helps.

[flat-herc]

You have to compile it first with:

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javac SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb.java

Then you can run it with

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java SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb

[Jägs]

Brilliant! It worked! I am now happily rebuilding playlists, hopefully for the last time. Thanks!

[tsquillario]

Thanks for this! Trying to get my playlists into XBMC.

[unimatrix27]

Hi,

how exactly do i give as argument the username/password? i have tried this:

java SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb "http://192.168.2.2:4040/db.view?query=" myuser:mypass .

but I always get 401 error (no access)

i also wonder how the playlist is sorted. i have executed the query to db.view manually with the browser but the order of songs is not according to what i get in the subsonic user interface or the Android APP.

[flat-herc]

The user:pass has to be in Base64. You can encode your username:Password String here: http://www.base64encode.org/
Haven't had any trouble with the sorting yet. The Sorting is just done by an ID within the Query at line 70.

[unimatrix27]

Hi,

ok the base64 encoding I should have realized that...thanks!

THe sorting is still a problem for me. When I move a track in a playlist e.g. from the last position to the second last position in the subsonic webif, this is obviously saved somewhere by Subsonic, because when I then update this playlist on my Android APP, the move of the song is reflected there.

However reexporting the list from the DB does not reflect the new sorting. Not really a problem of your script because as far as I have compared the DB the new sorting is not part of it! So I really start to wonder where this info is saved

I also tried the REST APi functions, but the same problem there. Which is even more strange as I thought the android app is also using it. I will look into it further...

[Octacon100]

Thanks for this, it really saved me a lot of effort!

[Octacon100]

Hi,

I've been able to edit the playlist exporter so that it will work on windows, and so that the exported playlists will work in itunes and windows media player.

The playlists are now exported with the songs in the same order that they are in on your subsonic server. With some other cmd scripts, perl scripts and auto hot key scripts, you can import the exported playlists into itunes. If anyone is interested in that code, let me know and I'll upload it.

Hope it helps!

[loubat]

Hi,

I've been able to edit the playlist exporter so that it will work on windows, and so that the exported playlists will work in itunes and windows media player.

The playlists are now exported with the songs in the same order that they are in on your subsonic server. With some other cmd scripts, perl scripts and auto hot key scripts, you can import the exported playlists into itunes. If anyone is interested in that code, let me know and I'll upload it.

Hope it helps!

I'm totally inexperienced in java, and haven't done much command prompt work in years, I'm getting old! Ok, I'm getting errors when I try to run this from cmd, without the brackets inclduded:
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http://192.168.2.5:4040/db.view?query=S ... 20PLAYLIST
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb.executeQuery(SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb.java:108)
at SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb.main(SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb.java:43)

With brackets I get:
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol

which I'm guessing is because I shouldn't be using the bracket, lol. Pretty embarrassing that I can't remember something simple like that. Help me out here, I'm clueless. I'm sure it's something simple...

Edit: Interesting workaround, I can see the Subsonic server in Mediamonkey, then save the playlist as an m3u. It's all links to streams from subsonic, rather than actual filepaths. That works fine for Winamp, but Sonos won't play it, which is really what I'm looking for. It sees the playlist, but doesn't recognize that there's any music in it.

[madhusker]

Looks like this is depreciated.

~/temp$ java SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb "https://192.168.1.10:4141/subsonic/db.view?query=" YW5ksmV3:JGFzfDAx .
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:643)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:323)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:268)
Could not find the main class: SubsonicPlaylistExporterWeb. Program will exit.

[friendlyferret]

Here's a friendly ammendment to the playlist exporter. This version accepts the username:password string in plaintext so that you don't have to encode it before you run the exporter. It requires Java 1.5 or greater.