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Get the latest version here: Tune2Spotify 1.0 beta (14/11/10).

Description

So you have Spotify and you have iTunes... And you have a lot of songs and playlists in iTunes that you would like to have in Spotify? Or you just would like to know which songs in iTunes are available on Spotify so you could remove them from iTunes?

What does it do?

• Tune2Spotify can search for songs from your iTunes library in Spotify
• It can mark the songs it found in iTunes (no program does that yet!)
• It can give you a list of Spotify links of those songs, so you can make a playlist in Spotify

Who made it?

Sander Datema did. I'm him. Though I'm not a programmer, I do have brains and I use them every now and then to do things I never do. :)

What does it cost?

Nothing.
Well, I'd appreciate a beer or a coffee. You can send me a digital one here.

Hey, I'm on a PC!

I'm sorry you are... Tune2Spotify only works on a Mac, because it uses Applescript.

Is it hard to install?

Nah... You download the file, then you download something the file needs (another file) and then you run it.

Do you need help?

This is a work in progress, so I'd like to hear your opinion. Please leave a comment here with tips, bugs, feature requests, praises, etc.

Installation instructions

1. Download the latest version of Tune2Spotify here
2. Move the file Tune2Spotify.applescript to a place you can find it back
3. Download the XML Tools by Late Night Software
   
4. Create a folder named ScriptingAdditions in your account's Library folder if one does not already exist
   
5. Double click on the XMLTools file you downloaded in step 3
6. Now drag the file named XML Tools.osax to the folder you created in step 4
   
7. Ok, you're almost done! Now remember where you put the Tune2Spotify.applescript file? Go there and double click it.
8. The Applescript Editor should open with your file in it. Press the compile button (yes, I have a Dutch version) to check if there are no errors (you never know)
   
9. Tune2Spotify will search all the tracks you have selected in iTunes. Or a whole playlist if you selected that. It can also handle smart playlists. With the default settings, Tune2Spotify will add tags to your songs:
   • spotify_true if the song appears once in Spotify
   • spotify_multiple if the song appears more than once in Spotify
   • spotify_false if the song was not found in Spotify
   Tune2Spotify will also create a new TextEdit document in which all Spotify links to matched songs are pasted. If a song was found multiple times in Spotify, Tune2Spotify will only paste the link to the most popular song of the matches.
10. You can change a few settings in the script:
    1. To have Tune2Spotify not make a Spotify link list, change property makeSpotifyLinkList: true to property makeSpotifyLinkList: false
    2. To have Tune2Spotify not add tags to your songs, change property addSpotifyTagsToiTunes: true to property addSpotifyTagsToiTunes: false
    3. Tune2Spotify uses the album name in the search, but you can leave that out: change property useAlbumInSearch: true to property useAlbumInSearch: false
    4. Tune2Spotify doesn't tag songs that are tagged already. You might have changed song names, etc. So you'll want to reprocess the tags for those songs. To have Tune2Spotify reprocess them again: change property reprocessTagged: false to property reprocessTagged: true
    5. And if you want Tune2Spotify to remove the spotify_tags of the selected songs, change property removeAllTags: false to property removeAllTags: true
11. Ok, let's run the script! Select a few songs in iTunes and then run the script (the green PLAY button in the Applescript Editor). It'll take a little while, cause Spotify will only allow 10 searches per second.
12. When done, the script will tell you what it did. Look at the info of your songs and you'll see a spotify_tag in them. Now you can make a smart playlist that looks for those tags.

Have fun!

And please let me know how and if it worked for you.

Cheers,

Sander