osx_rdio_exit.md

Rdio -> Google Play Music

Abandon ship!

I've used the following method to export a playlist with 601 items, matching 580. The remaining 21 are a mix of artist or album mismatches, along with some tracks that just aren't available.

Requires

• An rdio account (big surprise).
• A Google Play Music account.
• OSX
• homebrew setup with the following installed:
  • git
  • python with openssl support for easy_install
    • If missing: brew install openssl && brew reinstall python
  • gnu-sed
• Chrome with Rdio Enhancer installed.
• A sense of urgency.

Process

• Using Chrome (with Rdio Enhancer), login to rdio and use "Export to CSV" for each playlist (click the ... option when viewing the playlist).
• Checkout gmusic-playlist.
• Install the gmusicapi dependency:

easy_install gmusicapi

• Edit the gmusic-playlist preferences.py, update the username.
• Also in preferences.py, remove songid from track_info_order, we'll be relying on title+artist+album:

gsed -i.bak 's/,'\''songid'\''//' preferences.py

• Next delete the column names and strip the track number out of your playlists:

gsed -i.bak '1d;s/,"[0-9]\+"$//' ~/Downloads/Good\ Music.csv

• If you're using two factor auth on your Google account: generate an app level password.
• Finally we can run this puppy:

python ImportList.py ~/Downloads/Good\ Music.csv

• Cross your fingers. The import is safe to run again, it'll create a new playlist with the same name.
• Manually lookup any skipped tracks from the output.