Xbox Music - Exporting Playlist Metadata || Artist, Track, etc. || W8.1

*Disclaimer : Not sure if this is the right forum for this or not. Please feel free to kindly redirect.

Is there a way to export playlist details in a document/file of some sort? For instance, we're having a wedding, and over the course of the year we've compiled (into a playlist) a nice long list of our favorite songs, and we'd like to provide our deejay
this in a document, as guidance for the event. I'm not picky as to what format (word, excel, etc.) this comes in. Is there any way to do this?

Much thinks for any guidance, as (hopefully!) this will save us a lot of time typing.

Cheers! Brian.

:)

 

Lots of 'My Music' recognized as 'Unknown Artist'

Hey there gang,

Have any of you tried the steps outlined by Alixandr in the earlier post in this thread? If you try editing the metadata for the tracks in Windows Explorer, does the Xbox Music app 'see' them correctly after?

You wouldn't have to do the whole library, just a few tracks for testing. Get back to us with the results.

Thanks.

 

My go at "exporting" Spotify playlists to Xbox Music

I hope this is a good place to post this, not sure where Xbox Music fits in.
I recently bought an Xbox One and wanted to try out Xbox Music, but I have playlists with almost 600+ tracks. I was not able to find any solution to my problem on the internet (if you know one do tell). So I made a simple program to do it for me.
First it reads a list of Spotify track http links and extracts title, artist and album. Then, using Selenium (Selenium - Web Browser Automation) which is intended for web browser automation and testing,
starts chrome and navigates to xbox.music.com. Once you log in it will start searching for tracks, matching the result against the Spotify tracks added earlier and adding them to an Xbox Music playlist (I
recommend creating a new one). Since Selenium is doing this realtime it will take a while, but at least it is faster than I am at pressing keys and matching tracks =)
I did a testrun on a playlist with 600+ tracks and it found 527 in about 20 minutes (it all depends on how many results there are etc). Many of the ones it did not find either are invalid Spotify links (some links point to the wrong tracks, not much I
can do here), local tracks or do not exist on Xbox Music. Ofcourse there might be problems with the program as well.
Usage:

Create a txt file in the same folder as the executable named "tracklinks.txt" and paste your Spotify http track links here. Then run the program from the commandline.
XboxMusicPlaylistCrawler.exe "your chrome userdata folder" "an existing playlist on Xbox Music"
I am running windows 8 and my userdata folder is located at "C:/Users/myUser/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data". When it is done loading the tracks chrome will open and you can login. Then just let the program work. You will, ofcourse, need Chrome
(I wasn't able to get it working properly on other webbrowsers) and a little patience.
I would call it unstable at best, so don't expect too much. Songs might not get added or get added more than once etc, but it saved me a lot of time. Sometimes when no results are found it will idle for 10 seconds (this is a bug), but will continue after
the 10 seconds have passed. If MS changes anything in the layout of the html source of Xbox Music there is a good chance the program will fail, so.. For a limited time only =P
Here is a short YT video of it in action (NOTE: in the video I add a playlist link, but it turns out they only "support" up to 30 tracks, therefore the change to track links):
You can clone the project from my git repository: https://*** Die E-Mail-Adresse wurde aus Datenschutzgründen entfernt. ***//xboxmusicplaylistcrawler.git
The reason I am not posting an executable is that I am afraid people might accuse me of keylogging and what not, as the program itself starts the browser and leads you to the MS loginscreen. Clone the project and you can make sure nothing is going on =)
For more information on the project and how to set it up, see the Xbox Music Crawler posts on my blog, www.jacobholm.net.

 

Hey, BquillaSurfer! I moved this to the Xbox Music area. It's not quite the same as yours is for PC, but someone in here might be able to help you better than in the account forums!

 

Not an elegant solution at all, and I'm not sure if there's a better way to accomplish it, but you could login to
Web Server's Default Page select the playlist from the column on the left. Then highlight all the tracks and do a copy/paste into Excel or Word. You'll likely need to do some cleanup of the list as it appears
to duplicate the song title, but it will list the artist and album as well. Another way to do it is to share the playlist with your DJ directly using the Share feature (the icon next to the trash can).

Hopefully someone else will have a better way to go about it and fill us all in!

 

I suppose that will have to work. Like you said, not elegant, but should get the job done.

Thank you much!