utilmon/youtube-music-autouploader

autoupload local music files to youtube music library

Youtube Music Autouploader

Youtube music allows to stream uploaded local music files without subscription. This script monitores set directories and uploads created/downloaded music files in the directories to Youtube music library automatically.

Installation

1. Install required packages by pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Create authentication file ytmusic_auth.json
   • See https://ytmusicapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setup.html#authenticated-requests
   • Note the setup command should be called as YTMusic.setup(filepath='ytmusic_auth.json')
3. Open upload_ytmusic.py and configure line 11 and 13
   • directories is a list of directories to be monitored
   • fill-empty-tag (boolean) will decide to populate empty music tags (year, title, artist) before uploading, assuming the music file name has a form artist-title

For Windows

4. Create a shortcut to the cmd file upload_ytmusic.cmd and paste into the startup folder

For Mac

• See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6442364/running-script-upon-login-mac