Johan Van Barel

WinaGo 1.2

Import WinAmp Playlists to Google Music PlayLists.

Introduction

WinaGo is a command line toolkit to convert and import WinAmp playlists (m3u8) to Google Music playLists (csv) using Python and gmusicapi. The target audience are people who have organized their music and playlist collection in WinAmp and want to sync their collection to Google Music.
Google Music has a decent tool to sync a local song collection to Google Music (see Google Music Manager), but there is no way to sync WinAmp playlists.
WinaGo fills this gap. WinaGo can easily be modified to sync playlists from other local music managers.

Important remark

WinaGo asumes that the filenames of your song collection are formatted as <Artist> - <Title>.mp3. If this is not the case, WinaGo can easily be adjusted to fit another naming convention (see 4-WinAmp2GooglePlayList.bat)

Download and Installation

Download WinaGo.zip.
Unzip WinaGo.zip to a permanent directory (f.i. C:\WinaGo).

Forum

Please check the WinaGo forum for your questions and answers, your feedback and the latest information.

Workflow

Steps to perform (see more info below)

Run 1-ExportGooglePlaylists.bat (optional)
Run 2-DeleteGooglePlayLists.bat (optional)
Run 3-ExportGoogleLibrary.bat
Run 4-WinAmp2GooglePlayList.bat
Run 5-ImportWinAmpPlaylists.bat

Prerequisites

Install Python 2.7
Install python gmusicapi (by Simon Weber): pip install gmusicapi
Optional for WinAmp: download and install ML Exporter v1.0 to export all Smart Views
Install rxrepl (already included in this project zip)
Install python csvquery tool: pip install csvquerytool
Optional: import and export folders contain some example playlists for demo purposes (files can be deleted)
Add your Google username in preferences.py (replace line: username = 'your google login')

Backup Google Music Playlists

Run 1-ExportGooglePlaylists.bat: backup all Google Music Playlists to folder export (optional)
Run 2-DeleteGooglePlayLists.bat: delete all Google Music Playlists (optional)(needed because imported WinAmp playlists will be recreated, not added to existing Google Music Playlists!)
Run 3-ExportGoogleLibrary.bat: export a Playlist called Library.csv of all uploaded songs from Google Music Library in folder export (needed to query the Google Songid's!)

Export WinAmp SmartView Playlists (auto generated) to m3u8

Open WinAmp and click in lower left corner on Library/Export/Smart Views/All Smart Views
Select m3u8 format and folder import
Sometimes export does not export: restart winamp and immediately do the export as fast as possible, then it should work

Export WinAmp Static Playlists (manually created) to m3u8

Select (static) Playlists foldertab and select all playlists and click Save
Select m3u8 format and folder "import"

Convert WinAmp Playlists (m3u8) to Google Music PlayLists (csv)

Run 4-WinAmp2GooglePlayList.bat: check afterwards that import folder contains generated csv files

Import converted WinAmp Playlists (csv) to Google Music

Edit PlayLists.txt containing your list of WinAmp Playlists you want to import to Google Music
Run 5-ImportWinAmpPlaylists.bat: imports the Winamp playlists to Google Music. Imported WinAmp playlists will be re-created, not added to existing Google Music Playlists. Google Music limits the size of a playlist to maximum 1000 songs. WinaGo will split playlists larger than 1000 songs into seperate playlists with Part x added to the name.

License

This software is distributed as freeware. If you keep using this software, send me an appreciation or feedback e-mail for my programming effort and sharing this tool for free.
Or even better, buy me a coffee .

Disclaimer

This software and the accompanying files are supplied "as is", without any express or implied warranty. In no event shall the author be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages from the use of this software. By using this software you agree with these conditions.