plex-music-rating-sync

Plex Agents do not read music ratings when importing music files. This makes sense from a server-side-of-view. You don't want all users to have the same ratings or playlists. Every user should be able to set his / her own ratings and collect his favorite songs in playlists.

This project aims to provide a simple sync tool that synchronizes the track ratings and playlists with a specific PLEX user account and server.

Features

• synchronize: track ratings, playlists (not automatically generated)
• supported local media players: MediaMonkey
• dry run without applying any changes
• automatically or manually resolve conflicting track ratings
• logging

Requirements

• Windows
• MediaMonkey v4.x. v5.0 and above don't work, see #23.
• Plex Media Server (PMS)
• Python 3.6 or higher with packages:
  • PlexAPI v4.2.0
  • pypiwin32: to use the COM interface
  • fuzzywuzzy: for fuzzy string matching
  • python-Levenshtein (optional): to improve performance of fuzzywuzzy
  • numpy
  • ConfigArgParse
  • pandas

Installation

1. Clone this repository git clone git@github.com:patzm/plex-music-rating-sync.git
2. cd plex-music-rating-sync
3. Install all requirements pip3.6 install -r requirements.txt

How to run

The main file is sync_ratings.py. Usage description: Note: default values of command line arguments can be provided by editing config.ini

usage: sync_ratings.py [-h] [--dry] [--reverse] [--log LOG] [--passwd PASSWD] [--token TOKEN]
                       [--sync ITEM] [--player PLAYER] --server SERVER --username USERNAME

Synchronizes ID3 music ratings with a Plex media-server

required arguments:
  --server SERVER      The name of the plex media server
  --username USERNAME  The plex username
  
optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --dry                Does not apply any changes
  --reverse            Reverses ratings synchronization from Plex to local player 
  --sync               Selects which items to sync: one or more of: tracks, playlists [default is tracks]
  --log LOG            Sets the logging level
  --passwd PASSWD      The password for the plex user. NOT RECOMMENDED TO USE!
  --token TOKEN        Plex API token.  See https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/ for information on how to find your token
  --player PLAYER      Media player to synchronize with Plex [default is MediaMonkey]

Start the synchronization: ./sync_ratings.py --server <server_name> --username <my@email.com|user_name> Using the --dry flag in combination with --log DEBUG is recommended to see what changes will be made.

Current issues

• the PlexAPI seems to be only working for the administrator of the PMS.
• playlist synchronization from Plex to local player not implemented

Potential next features

With the current state I have completed all functionality I desired to have. Consequently I will not continue development unless you request it. I welcome anyone to join the development of this little cmd-line tool. Just open a new issue, post a pull request, or ask me to give you permissions for the repository itself.

These are a few ideas I have for features that would make sense:

• setup routine
• bi-directional sync
• parallelization
• better user-interaction with nicer dialogs
• iTunes synchronization?

References

PlexAPI simplifies talking to a PMS.

This project uses the MediaMonkey scripting interface using Microsoft COM model. An introduction can be found here. The relevant model documentation is available here.