🎶 Copy music files in a playlist for export 💿

Copy your mp3s, in order, from an m3u playlist into a directory for export.

These scripts will:

Collect files in your music playlist
Order the songs
Copy them into a new directory.

Now can burn your collection to a CD, or send the playlist to friends. 👍

Using copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory

The script can, optionally, take two arguments:

The name of the m3u playlist file.
The location to place the contents of the playlist.

If neither is specified, the script defaults to playlist.m3u and current working directory.

Usage Examples

Download on Linux

You can download the Bash version of this script here:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MarcusHoltz/copy-m3u-playlist-files/main/copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.sh

Running on Bash

Using the bash version of this script, run the script with:

bash copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.sh name-of-playlist.m3u /home/user/Music/somefiles

Download on Windows

You can download the Powershell version of this script to a specified directory with a command like:

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MarcusHoltz/copy-m3u-playlist-files/main/copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.ps1" -OutFile "C:\path\to\destination\somefolder\copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.ps1"

Running on Windows Powershell

Using the Powershell version of this script you just downloaded, run the Powershell script with:

Unblock-File .\copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.ps1
copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.ps1 name-of-your-playlist.m3u C:\path\to\destination\somefolder\ -SkipMissing -Verbose

Download using Python

To download the Python version, with more Python…

Create and run this python script to download the file:

import urllib.request

url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MarcusHoltz/copy-m3u-playlist-files/main/copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.py"
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)

with open("copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.py", "wb") as file:
    file.write(response.read())

Running the Python script with Python

To run the downloaded Python script:

python3 copy-m3u-playlist-files-to-directory.py name-of-your-playlist.m3u /path/to/destination

Thanks!

You can find more information about this repo at:

https://github.com/MarcusHoltz/copy-m3u-playlist-files/ - 🎶

Create a copy of your playlist's music files to a directory