Tools for moving from Spotify to YTMusic

Overview

This is a set of scripts for copying "liked" songs and playlists from Spotify to YTMusic. There is also a GUI version by Yoween available.

Getting Started

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:

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

Then you can run the following commands to run the individual s2yt commands:

• For s2yt_copy_playlist: python3 -m spotify2ytmusic.copy_playlist
• For s2yt_create_playlist: python3 -m spotify2ytmusic.create_playlist
• For s2yt_list_playlists: python3 -m spotify2ytmusic.list_playlists
• For s2yt_load_liked: python3 -m spotify2ytmusic.load_liked
• For s2yt_load_liked_albums: python3 -m spotify2ytmusic.load_liked_albums

Login to YTMusic

ytmusicapi oauth

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.

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 <SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_ID> <YTMUSIC_PLAYLIST_ID>

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

s2yt_create_playlist "<PLAYLIST_NAME>"

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 <SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_ID> +<YTMUSIC_PLAYLIST_NAME>

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 <ARTIST> --album <ALBUM> <TRACK_NAME>

FAQ

• 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