xspf2m3u - simple XSPF to M3U conversion

Playlists tend to break whenever you reorder your music collection. The XSPF format allows to specify songs by metadata rather than file location, so it theoretically solves that problem. Unfortnately, most audio players do not support that format.

This script allows to convert XSPF to M3U by finding file locations that match the given metadata. It is not a full content resolver. In fact, it is rather dumb. It uses the following strategies:

• If the input file specifies a location, use that.
• If the path of a file on the local computer looks like it could match, use that.
• If youtube-dl is installed, use it to search youtube. The resulting URL will expire after 6 hours.

Usage:

xspf2m3u input.xspf /my/music > output.m3u