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A comment on Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I wrote my own format.

Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by ianwalter on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:05PM (#13765613)
This is such a good idea. If nothing else, third party tools that people make to transfer playlists between platforms could standardize on this and, in doing so, would reduce duplicated efforts. After trying (and being dissatisfied with) EVERY music service, I'm currently trying to consolidate back to Apple Music. Manually. It's awful.
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Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ... by StavrosK on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:13PM (#13766516)
Since this is coming along rather okay, I think I will write a converter this weekend. I aim to have it accept an M3U/PLS playlist and the corresponding files and write out a UPL.

The opposite step would be a bit harder, I'd have to index all music files in a library and convert the UPL to PLS, which might be too much work for a simple tool, but I'll see if it can be done quickly and dirtily. That would be a nice idea, `upl2pls -i favorites.upl -o favorites.pls` and your favorite player is ready to play the files.

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