Google Play Music to Spotify Playlist Transfer Tool Ultimate 3000 Edition

2021 Update: SongShift is now available and mostly free and very good so I recommend using that instead. This repo is no longer maintained.

This Python script will transfer your GPM playlists to Spotify. I wrote this for three main reasons:

1. I was moving to Spotify and there was no way I would transfer 4000 songs by hand
2. Couldn't find anything open source that actually did this
3. Anything that claimed to do this cost money and was not trustworthy

This runs locally and absolutely zero information is sent to me or anyone else. Hopefully this saves someone time and money.

Requirements

• Python 3.7
• Pipenv
• A GPM and Spotify account

Setup

1. Go to the developer page, make an app/client_id. Add your redirect URL as http://localhost/
2. mv .env.example .env
3. Populate .env with client_id, secret, redirect url, and username (found when you login online)

Usage

pipenv install
pipenv run python3 main.py

You may want to redirect output to a file. This spits out a ton of logs to stdout. Up to you.

pipenv run python3 main.py >main.log

Transferring thumbs up to library

GPM and Spotify have a similar way of storing "liked" music but it requires a different way to process it.

Heres a quick way to transfer it:

1. Play your thumbs up playlist
2. Open the queue, save queue to a playlist
3. Note the name you gave it, enter it below

pipenv run python3 thumbs_up.py [name of thumbs up playlist]

Albums

pipenv run python3 albums.py

Todo

When I have time I will make this a single executable and rewrite things with reusable classes, also will get rid of pipenv because the devs cannot improve its slow speed.

Known Issues

Spotify doesn't care about unique playlist names. You can have duplicates so be aware if you run this multiple times.

This will not transfer songs that were uploaded. Spotify does not offer cloud storage. Uploaded songs will be a line item in errored-tracks.log as the playlist name (since there is no song name to get)

If songs are missing, it's likely they don't exist on Spotify. Its also possible it was not found by search because it relies on the songs having the same name structure. Check errored-tracks.log and search them manually.

Spotify seems to give random 500s, can't do much about it. Seems to be rare. The script will write the failed tracks to errored-tracks.log

You might hit a rate limit. I tried on a premium account with thousands of songs and was okay.

There might be issues with GPM and playlists with over 1k songs. This has not been tested

Feel free to fork and/or open a GH issue

Thanks

gmusicapi

spotipy

python-dotenv