Requires ffmpeg or avconv, however one of these comes pre-installed on most machines. install sync-dl via pypi using pip:

pip install sync-dl

Created to avoid having music deleted but still have the convenience of browsing, adding and reordering new music using remote services such as youtube.

The application does not store any of its metadata in songs, metadata is stored next to them in a .metadata file, the music files are managed through number ing, allowing them to be played alphanumerically using any playback service (such as VLC)

For more information see https://github.com/PrinceOfPuppers/sync-dl

sync-dl [options] COMMAND [options] PLAYLIST

sync-dl has the several subcommands, run sync-dl -h to see them all and sync-dl [COMMAND] -h to get info on a particular one. As an example, here is the new command which creates new playlists from a youtube [URL]:

sync-dl new [URL] [PLAYLIST]

The playlist will be put it in directory [PLAYLIST], which is relative to the current working directory unless you specify your music directory using:

sync-dl config -l [PATH]

Where [PATH] is where you wish to store all your playlists in, ie) ~/Music.

The main feature of sync-dl:

sync-dl sync -s PLAYLIST

Adds new music from remote playlist to local playlist, also takes ordering of remote playlist without deleting songs no longer available in remote playlist.

Songs that are no longer available in remote, will remain after the song they are currently after in the local playlist to maintain playlist flow.

Includes tools managing large playlists, For example:

sync-dl edit --move-range [I1] [I2] [NI] [PLAYLIST]

which allows a user to move a block of songs From [I1] to [I2] to after song [N1].

Moving large blocks of songs on youtube requires dragging each song individually up/down a the page as it trys to dynamically load the hunders of songs you're scrolling past, which you would have to do every time you would want to add new music to somewhere other than the end of the playlist... (ask me how I know :^P)

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For more information see https://github.com/PrinceOfPuppers/sync-dl-ytapi

sync-dl ytapi --push order [PLAYLIST]

sync-dl has a submodule which uses the youtube api the preform the reverse of Smart Sync called Push Order.

sync-dl will prompt you to install the submodule if you use any of its options ie) --push-order. you must also sign in with google (so sync-dl can edit the order of your playlist).

sync-dl ytapi transfer [OPTIONS] [SRC_PLAYLIST] [DEST_PLAYLIST]

Transfers songs between SRC_PLAYLIST and DEST_PLAYLIST on both local and remote, moving a single song using -t SI DI or a range of songs -r S1 S2 DI

sync-dl ytapi transfer [OPTIONS] [SRC_PLAYLIST] [DEST_PLAYLIST]

To see all options as well as a more indepth description use the command:

sync-dl ytapi transfer -h

To build for development run:

git clone https://github.com/PrinceOfPuppers/sync-dl.git
cd sync-dl    
pip install -e .

This will build and install sync-dl in place, allowing you to work on the code without having to reinstall after changes

python test.py [options] TEST_PLAYLIST_URL

Will run all unit and integration tests, for the integration tests it will use the playlist TEST_PLAYLIST_URL