mmsync

MusicMetaSync: sync music metadata between Rhythmbox and PlayerPro.

What?

I love to have my music library in iTunes and syncing it to my iPod. And by syncing I mean rate a song on my Ipod and find the same rating in iTunes and viceversa. It's a great way to sort and organize your music.

Well, this tool aims to do (almost) the same in Linux, by replacing iTunes with Rhythmbox and the Ipod with an android based device running PlayerPro.

How?

Syncing the music files it's easy, you can use several tools for this task: rsync, Syncthing, Resilio, etc. Once you choose your way, you have you music library (or part of it) on both your pc and your android device.

But what about metadata? What about ratings and playcounts? For those you can use mmsync.

With mmsync you can import/export ratings and playcounts between Rhythmbox and PlayerPro. And if you already have your music library in iTunes you can use mmsync to import your data from iTunes to Rhythmbox.

More details

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Installation

mmsync is a command line tool written in python. To install it clone the repository and use pip:

$ git clone https://github.com/mafffigo/mmsync
$ cd mmsync
$ pip install .

Usage

Basic

Once installed with pip you should be able to call mmsync directly from the terminal:

Get help

$ mmsync -h

Sync: Rhythmbox --> PlayerPro

$ mmsync -rb path/to/your/rhythmdb.xml --pp path/to/your/playerprodb.xml -a rb2pp 

Sync: PlayerPro --> Rhythmbox

$ mmsync -rb path/to/your/rhythmdb.xml --pp path/to/your/playerprodb.xml -a pp2rb 

License

The source code is licensed under GPL v3. License is available here.