karanrajpal14 / play-music-exporter

Python script that downloads all your uploaded and purchased music from your library

Google Play Music Exporter

I don't really fancy YouTube Music's UI/UX and the negligence of Google Play Music left a bitter taste in my mouth which led to me writing this script over the weekend. It's still a bit rough around the edges but it does get the job done. Should you find any problems with the script, feel free to open an issue and I'll do my best to fix it.

This script alows you to make use of gmusicapi - an unoffocial Google Play Music API to export all your uploaded and purchased music. My main intention behind building this is to export all my tracks before they sunset the service.

This script does a few basic things such as:

• Downloads all (uploaded/purchased) tracks from your library using
• Adds basic ID3 tags to the tracks using eyeD3 (file returned by Google does not have any metadata embedded)
• Delete's downloaded tracks from your library to make consecutive runs faster
• Exports a JSON of your current library's metadata and a list of IDs for all the downloaded tracks. Both can be found under the logs/ directory.

Requirements

• gmusicapi
• eyeD3

Instructions

1. Clone the repository

2. Install the requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt preferably within a virtual environment

3. Rename .env.sample to .env

4. Run the script and follow the instructions on the console to authenticate using OAuth.

5. The script will display a set of devices in the console that are tied to your account. Select any one of the devices that you use Play Music (preferably an Android device) on and paste the ID in the .env file.

   For example, if your registered devices look like this:

   [
       {
           "kind": "...",
           "id": "0x12a34bc5678def9g",
           "friendlyName": "...",
           "type": "ANDROID",
           "lastAccessedTimeMs": "..."
       }
   ]

   Then, your .env file will look like this:

   DEVICE_ID=12a34bc5678def9g
   

   Ensure that you omit the '0x' prefix

6. Re-run the script after setting up the .env file to begin exporting your library

Note:

1. You will see a warning Lame tag CRC check failed when trying to save the ID3 tags to a file. You can ignore it for now as I couldn't find a way to fix it (any help would be appreciated). This does not affect the saving of the metadata in any way.
2. If you don't want the track to be removed from your library, set the POST_DOWNLOAD_DELETE flag to False (which it is by default).
3. The ID3 tags that are added using this script are there just to help music players display basic metadata. You should use more advanced programs such as MusicBrainz Picard to clean them up for long-term use. Also, none of the tracks will have any album-art (for now).

Credits

• Simon Weber who built gmusicapi
• nicfit who built eyeD3
• All the developers who help maintain these libraries