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https://github.com/linsomniac/spotify_to_ytmusic

Copy playlists and liked music from Spotify to YTMusic
https://github.com/linsomniac/spotify_to_ytmusic

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Copy playlists and liked music from Spotify to YTMusic

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Tools for moving from Spotify to YTMusic



# Overview



This is a set of scripts for copying "liked" songs and playlists from Spotify to YTMusic.

It provides both CLI tools and a GUI (implemented by Yoween, formerly called

[spotify_to_ytmusic_gui](https://github.com/Yoween/spotify_to_ytmusic_gui)).



# Thanks



Thanks to @RadicalArti and Meet Vora for their generous financial contributions to this

project.



# Getting Started



## Install Python (you may already have it)



You will need a somewhat recent version of Python  3.10 and above are known to work,

3.8-3.10 might work.



### For Windows



Download Python for Windows from: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/



You can also use choco to install it: `choco install python`



### For MacOS



Run:



```

brew install python

brew install python-tk

```



### For Linux



You probably already have it installed.  See your package manager of choice to

install it.



## Install spotify2ytmusic (via pip)



This package is available on pip, so you can install it using:



`pip install spotify2ytmusic`



or:



`python3 -m pip install spotify2ytmusic`



## (Or) Running From Source



(Not recommended)



Another option, instead of pip, is to just clone this repo and run directly from the

source.  However, you will need the "ytmusicapi" package installed, so you'll probably

want to use pip to install that at the very least.



To run directly from source:



```shell

git clone [email protected]:linsomniac/spotify_to_ytmusic.git

cd spotify_to_ytmusic

pip install ytmusicapi

pip install tk  # If using the GUI

```



Then you can prefix the command you want to run with `python3 -m spotify2ytmusic`, for

example:



```shell

python3 -m spotify2ytmusic gui

python3 -m spotify2ytmusic list_playlists

python3 -m spotify2ytmusic load_liked

[etc...]

```



## Graphical UI



If you have installed via PIP, you should be able to run: `s2yt_gui`



Otherwise, if running from source:



On Windows: `python -m spotify2ytmusic gui`



Or on Linux: `python3 -m spotify2ytmusic gui`



### Login to YTMusic - Tab 0



#### Click the `login` button on the first tab



OR



Run `ytmusicapi oauth` in a console.



OR



Run `s2yt_ytoauth`



OR



Run `python -m spotify2ytmusic ytoauth`



This will give you a URL, visit that URL and authorize the application.  When you are

done with the import you can remove the authorization for this app.



This will write a file "oauth.json".  Keep this file secret while the app is authorized.

This file includes a logged in session token.



ytmusicapi is a dependency of this software and should be installed as part of the "pip

install".



### Backup Your Spotify Playlists - Tab 1



#### Click the `Backup` button, and wait until it finished and switched to the next tab.



**OR** do all the steps below



Download

[spotify-backup](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caseychu/spotify-backup/master/spotify-backup.py).



Run `spotify-backup.py` and it will help you authorize access to your spotify account.



Run: `python3 spotify-backup.py playlists.json --dump=liked,playlists --format=json`



This will save your playlists and liked songs into the file "playlists.json".



### Reverse your playlists - Tab 2

As mentionned below, the original program adds the songs in the 'wrong' order. That's a

feature I don't like, so I created a script to reverse them. It seems to be reliable,

but if you find anything weird, please open an issue. It creates a backup of the

original file just in case anyway.



Example: `python3 .\reverse_playlist.py ./playlists.json -r`



### Import Your Liked Songs - Tab 3

#### Click the `import` button, and wait until it finished and switched to the next tab.



It will go through your Spotify liked songs, and like them on YTMusic.  It will display

the song from spotify and then the song that it found on YTMusic that it is liking.  I've

spot-checked my songs and it seems to be doing a good job of matching YTMusic songs with

Spotify.  So far I haven't seen a single failure across a couple hundread songs, but more

esoteric titles it may have issues with.



### List Your Playlists - Tab 4



#### Click the `list` button, and wait until it finished and switched to the next tab.



This will list the playlists you have on both Spotify and YTMusic, so you can individually copy them.



### Copy Your Playlists - Tab 5



You can either copy **all** playlists, or do a more surgical copy of individual playlists.

Copying all playlists will use the name of the Spotify playlist as the destination playlist name on YTMusic.



#### To copy all the playlists click the `copy` button, and wait until it finished and switched to the next tab.



**NOTE**: This does not copy the Liked playlist (see above to do that).



### Copy specific Playlist - Tab 6



In the list output, find the "playlist id" (the first column) of the Spotify playlist and of the YTMusic playlist.

#### Then fill both input fields and click the `copy` button.



The copy playlist will take the name of the YTMusic playlist and will create the

playlist if it does not exist, if you start the YTMusic playlist with a "+":



Re-running "copy_playlist" or "load_liked" in the event that it fails should be safe, it

will not duplicate entries on the playlist.



## Command Line Usage



### Login to YTMusic



`ytmusicapi oauth` or `s2yt_ytoauth` or `python -m spotify2ytmusic ytoauth`



This will give you a URL, visit that URL and authorize the application.  When you are

done with the import you can remove the authorization for this app.



This will write a file "oauth.json".  Keep this file secret while the app is authorized.

This file includes a logged in session token.



ytmusicapi is a dependency of this software and should be installed as part of the "pip

install".



### Backup Your Spotify Playlists



Download

[spotify-backup](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caseychu/spotify-backup/master/spotify-backup.py).



Run `spotify-backup.py` and it will help you authorize access to your spotify account.



Run: `python3 spotify-backup.py playlists.json --dump=liked,playlists --format=json`



This will save your playlists and liked songs into the file "playlists.json".



### Import Your Liked Songs



Run: `s2yt_load_liked`



It will go through your Spotify liked songs, and like them on YTMusic.  It will display

the song from spotify and then the song that it found on YTMusic that it is liking.  I've

spot-checked my songs and it seems to be doing a good job of matching YTMusic songs with

Spotify.  So far I haven't seen a single failure across a couple thousand songs, but more

esoteric titles it may have issues with.



### Import Your Liked Albums



Run: `s2yt_load_liked_albums`



Spotify stores liked albums outside of the "Liked Songs" playlist.  This is the command to

load your liked albums into YTMusic liked songs.



### List Your Playlists



Run `s2yt_list_playlists`



This will list the playlists you have on both Spotify and YTMusic.  You will need to

individually copy them.



### Copy Your Playlists



You can either copy **all** playlists, or do a more surgical copy of individual playlists.

Copying all playlists will use the name of the Spotify playlist as the destination

playlist name on YTMusic.  To copy all playlists, run:



`s2yt_copy_all_playlists`



**NOTE**: This does not copy the Liked playlist (see above to do that).



In the list output above, find the "playlist id" (the first column) of the Spotify playlist,

and of the YTMusic playlist, and then run:



`s2yt_copy_playlist  `



If you need to create a playlist, you can run:



`s2yt_create_playlist ""`



*Or* the copy playlist can take the name of the YTMusic playlist and will create the

playlist if it does not exist, if you start the YTMusic playlist with a "+":



`s2yt_copy_playlist  +`



For example:



`s2yt_copy_playlist SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_ID "+Feeling Like a PUNK"`



Re-running "copy_playlist" or "load_liked" in the event that it fails should be safe, it

will not duplicate entries on the playlist.



### Searching for YTMusic Tracks



This is mostly for debugging, but there is a command to search for tracks in YTMusic:



`s2yt_search --artist  --album  `



## Details About Search Algorithms



The function first searches for albums by the given artist name on YTMusic.



It then iterates over the first three album results and tries to find a track with

the exact same name as the given track name. If it finds a match, it returns the

track information.



If the function can't find the track in the albums, it then searches for songs by the

given track name and artist name.



Depending on the yt_search_algo parameter, it performs one of the following actions:



If yt_search_algo is 0, it simply returns the first song result.



If yt_search_algo is 1, it iterates over the song results and returns the first song

that matches the track name, artist name, and album name exactly. If it can't find a

match, it raises a ValueError.



If yt_search_algo is 2, it performs a fuzzy match. It removes everything in brackets

in the song title and checks for a match with the track name, artist name, and album

name. If it can't find a match, it then searches for videos with the track name and

artist name. If it still can't find a match, it raises a ValueError.



If the function can't find the track using any of the above methods, it raises a

ValueError.



## FAQ



- Does this run on mobile?



No, this runs on Linux/Windows/MacOS.



- I get "No matching distribution found for spotify2ytmusic".



  This has been reported in [Issue #39](https://github.com/linsomniac/spotify_to_ytmusic/issues/39#issuecomment-1954432174)

  and it seems like a mismatch between python versions.  Users there, on MacOS, needed

  to install a specific version of Python, and then use the matching version of PIP:



  ```

  brew install [email protected]

  brew install [email protected]

  pip3.10 install spotify2ytmusic

  ```



- How does the lookup algorithm work?



  Given the Spotify track information, it does a lookup for the album by the same artist

  on YTMusic, then looks at the first 3 hits looking for a track with exactly the same

  name.  In the event that it can't find that exact track, it then does a search of songs

  for the track name by the same artist and simply returns the first hit.



  The idea is that finding the album and artist and then looking for the exact track match

  will be more likely to be accurate than searching for the song and artist and relying on

  the YTMusic algorithm to figure things out, especially for short tracks that might be

  have many contradictory hits like "Survival by Yes".



- My copy is failing with repeated "ERROR: (Retrying) Server returned HTTP 400: Bad

  Request".



  Try running with "--track-sleep=3" argument to do a 3 second sleep between tracks.  This

  will take much longer, but may succeed where faster rates have failed.



## License



Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal



spotify-backup.py licensed under MIT License.

See https://github.com/caseychu/spotify-backup for more information.



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