howto.sync.rst

Sync data between local and remote libraries

In this example, you will:

• Search for local tracks on a music streaming service and assign unique remote IDs to tags in your local tracks
• Get tags and images for a track from a music stream service and save it them to your local track file
• Create remote playlists from your local playlists

Note

This guide will use Spotify, but any supported music streaming service can be used in generally the same way. Just modify the imports and classes as required.

Sync data

1. Define a helper function to search for tracks and check the results:

   .. literalinclude:: _howto/scripts/sync/p1.py
      :language: Python
      :lines: 3-
   
   

2. Define a helper function to load the matched tracks, get tags from the music streaming service, and save the tags to the file:

   Note

   By default, URIs are saved to the comments tag.

   .. literalinclude:: _howto/scripts/sync/p2.py
      :language: Python
      :lines: 3-
   
   

3. Define a helper function to sync the local playlist with a remote playlist once all tracks in a playlist have URIs assigned:

   .. literalinclude:: _howto/scripts/sync/p3.py
      :language: Python
      :lines: 3-
   
   

4. Set up and load a remote API object and local library with a wrangler attached:

   .. literalinclude:: _howto/scripts/spotify.api.py
      :language: Python
   
   

   .. literalinclude:: _howto/scripts/sync/p4.py
      :language: Python
      :lines: 3-
   
   

4. Set up the remote library and run the program:

   .. literalinclude:: _howto/scripts/sync/p99.py
      :language: Python
      :lines: 3-