Move all music files from your itunes Library to another directory, using the "Library -> Export Playlist" data file.

relocate_music.py

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# File  : seth/relocate_music.py
# Author: Seth R Johnson
# Date  : Mon Feb 03 00:24:31 2014
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from __future__ import (division, absolute_import, print_function, )
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import csv
from collections import namedtuple
import logging as log
import sys
import os

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def translate_path_bits(macos_path):
    return ['/Volumes'] + macos_path.split(':')

def translate_path(macos_path):
    return os.path.join(*translate_path_bits(macos_path))

class Mover(object):
    filepath  = '/Volumes/Persei/Removed Music/Remove.txt'
    orig_root = '/Volumes/Persei/iTunes Media/Music'
    new_root  = '/Volumes/Persei/Removed Music'

    def __init__(self):
        self.rowcls = None
        self.data = []

    def load(self):
        with open(self.filepath, 'rU') as f:
            data = f.read()
        text = data.decode('utf16')
        lines = text.split('\n')
        f = iter(lines)

        headers = next(f).split('\t')
        pyheaders = [h.decode('ascii').lower().replace(" ","_")
                        for h in headers]
        self.rowcls = rowcls = namedtuple("Row", pyheaders)

        for line in f:
            try:
                datum = rowcls(*line.split('\t'))
            except TypeError as e:
                log.exception(e)
                log.error("Faulty data: %s", repr(line))
            self.data.append(datum)

    def move(self):
        for d in self.data:
            if not d.location:
                log.error("Bad location for %s: %s", d.name, d.location)
                continue

            orig_path = translate_path(d.location)
            if not os.path.exists(orig_path):
                log.warning("Nonexistent file: %s", orig_path)
                continue

            new_path = orig_path.replace(self.orig_root, self.new_root)
            if new_path == orig_path:
                log.error("Bad original path: %s", orig_path)
                continue

            (dirname, basename) = os.path.split(new_path)
            if not os.path.isdir(dirname):
                print("Creating directory", dirname)
                os.makedirs(dirname)

            print("Moving", basename)
            try:
                os.rename(orig_path, new_path)
            except OSError as e:
                log.exception(e)
                log.error("Couldn't move %s to %s", orig_path, new_path)




def main():
    m = Mover()
    m.load()
    m.move()

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if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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