Migrate PA playlist to AP queue?

[billbrod]

Thanks for the migration script, it works great! I was wondering if it's possible to also migrate the PodcastAddict playlist to the AntennaPod queue? I have a ~300 episode playlist, which I'd rather not remake manually. PodcastAddict can export an m3u file of the playlist, but I can't see any way to import such a file into AntennaPod -- I assume with the mapping the pa_to_ap.py script does would be necessary to make a good effort at it.

[jgandert]

Thanks for the report! That would make sense.

Would you be willing to provide your PodcastAddict backup, the m3u file (just in case) and if available, the fresh-but-post-OPML-import Antennapod .db file?

If not, that is totally okay and understandable.

[billbrod]

Yes, I'd rather not upload my actual backups on the open internet, but here's an example from a fresh install on a different device (so there's no useful stats in the PodcastAddict backup). The queue has the characteristics of mine: multiple podcasts, some episodes downloaded (but not all), and the order is mostly but not entirely chronological. Recovering the order is the least important (and the download status already works), the main thing I'd like is getting all (or most) of the episodes into the AntennaPod queue.

I can't upload the files with their actual file extensions, so I've changed the extensions all to .txt, hopefully you should be able to figure out which is the .backup, .db, and .m3u based on the filename.

AntennaPodBackup-2026-08-09.txt

playlist_AUDIO_1786283995792.txt

PodcastAddict_20260809_095910.txt

[jgandert]

Thanks @billbrod 👍

Try, if it works now. If not, I or you can reopen.

[billbrod]

This works great, thanks for the quick fix!

[billbrod]

One additional suggestion: it might be useful to create an output file or print in its own section a list of the episodes that were unable to be included in the queue (because either the episode or the feed itself couldn't be matched), grouped by feed (and printing out the PodcastAddict feed). In my case, one entire feed and a random episode from a separate feed weren't matched, but I had to guess which feeds based on the name of the episodes. This wasn't too difficult, but could've been if more feeds were unmatched.