Export playlists + tracks to directories (script)

Hi,

My friend came to me with a question how to pull the Rekordbox playlist out from the Rekordbox, including the tracks they contain....

This might be handy when you are playing in a club where are no usb equipped cdj's (so you can easily burn the mp3 to a cd, record them to the cassette, VHS or whatever legacy medium you prefer...), you are playing on someone else's laptop etc. and all you need are the tracks from your shiny Rekordbox playlists. 

I wrote a simple, dirty python script, which lets you to select a playlist from the Rekordbox, and the script pulls/copies the tracks to a directory, prefix each track with number (so you keep the order)....

Not sure if anyone else will make use of it but why not to share.... :)

You can get the script here:

https://github.com/maaraneasi/RekordExport

All you need to do, is to export your Rekordbox library as the xml file, point the script to that file (just open the file, edit the path and save) and run in your terminal using "python playlists_et.py"

Its mainly written for the OSX but after a small changes, it might work on windows as well (have no windows installation of the Rekordbox so not sure about the changes in the xml when talking about the paths to the files...).

The script doesn't touch the original files or the Rekordbox collection in any way but reading them but as always - have backups - you have been warned and I am not responsible for any harm caused to your cats, dogs, children, files..

(PS: I am not a coder so I am sorry for the quality of the code...)

NOTE: There is a variable in the script called removed_before_flight - if you set it to 0 (zero), it will not copy anything but print what would be done. (there is a bug that this activity will create empty directories anyway....).

When set to 1 it will copy the files once executed.

Basically this is useful for just previewing if everything is as expected.

Cheers!

Marek