iExporter Liberates Your Playlists From iTunes
Windows only: iTunes excels at making playlists whether you’re dragging and dropping or using building a smart playlist. iExporter lets you enjoy your awesome choices on other devices besides your computer and iPod.
Presently iTunes is stingy when it comes to sharing the playlists you build. You can export the playlist and tunes to your iPod, you can listen right at your computer, or you can stream the playlist to devices around your house that support the iTunes library. If you want to put the incredible Herbie Hancock/Kurt Cobain fusion mix you just whipped together onto another device like your swanky new phone or a USB drive to take to work you’re out of luck. iExporter is a simple application for taking the contents of your playlist and dumping the songs into the folder of your choice.
The application only exports MP3 files and unfortunately doesn’t create an actual .m3u playlist file—a rather glaring oversight we’d love to see corrected in a future release of the tiny app. iExporter is open source, Windows only.
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Close but no cigar for me. I need to keep two full libraries synced and with full playlists as well. Exporting mp3s to a folder just doesn't seem all that easy.
I did happen to find Super Sync - so far so good, although I'm still in the process of backing up my primary library before I make the plunge and do a full sync. It works really well over Hamachi which is a great plus. The only downside is it's not free - but I couldn't find an app that does the same for free.
Tyrun101
I've used iTunes Sync (great) since it was featured here on LH, but i'll give this a try.
joandrade
Sorry to thread crap, but I'm looking for a playlist program that can export (prefereably to a .exe/.dmg) so I can send my playlist to a friend. Is this already possible?
Gene Miller
@Glenn Versweyveld: Yep you can drag and drop in Itunes but it is a hassle when you are dragging more than 1000 mp3s because it lags pretty badly, or maybe that's just me and my "sucky" computer
MT138
@Matt Chambers: I had no idea! Consider me schooled. My iTunes-fu is apparently sub-par.
So @Richaod:
It does, in a much sexy-geekier way. So does Select All -> Copy -> Paste in a Folder which can be hotkey-ed, automated, yadda yadda yadda
BTW anyone interested in a great playlist check this one out: Preferred Pepper
S@ndman
You beat me to it. I was coming here just to post that. I was also going to mention you could sync other devices directly with iTunes with "iTunes Agent"
S@ndman
To be clear, I'm the programmer of this tool
@Richaod: I was not aware this was possible in iTunes! And how do you do this? Select all and then drag drop?
@dberthia: indeed if you only are looking for music media storage, there are other solutions, but I still sync with my iPod and that will automatically update my smart playlists in iTunes. Those are the ones I want to export to my usb stick to be able to listen to it while I'm in the car :)
Glenn Versweyveld
This app is useless - you can drag songs or playlists from iTunes to Windows Explorer and it'll do the exact same thing.
If you're only concerned with music, free your playlists by using MediaMonkey instead of iTunes. I've never looked back after I made the move.
How can i move a playlist from iTunes and Zune and vice-versa? I recently discovered the playlists are not compatible. Any ideas?
iTunes can already do this. All you have to do is go to a playlist, highlight the files, hit ctrl+c, go to a folder, hit ctrl+v, and voila, your mp3s are exported. Same problem as this thing though, no playlist file is generated so you can't enforce play order.
Matt Chambers
@Jason Fitzpatrick: another thing you can do is do what Matt mentioned except paste it into windows media player or winamp (i have done it on both.) and then create a m3u playlist from there. I have even just dragged the playlist item from the itunes menu to the winamp menu and it worked. try it!
financingisfree
@MT138: Thanks for the info!
So if I'm correct it's possible in iTunes, but you still have to select everything yourself :)
With iExporter you can export several playlists in one go.
Anyhow, thanks to these inputs I have some new things I can work on! Thanks guys.
Glenn Versweyveld
Well thanks to the LifeHacker input, I've now added m3u file support!
Each playlist or artist export will have his own m3u file in the root export destination folder. This way you can start up the exported tracks easily in other media players.
Glenn Versweyveld
Great idea but iTunes already does this very simply with the ability to copy any or all files from a playlist to a folder either by drag and drop or copy/paste.
At least the framework has been built for an application to manipulate itunes playlists some way or another.
Cheers
jensbodal
@Gene Miller You might try AMOK Playlist Copy - free program and it copies your playlist to a destination of your choosing - then you can just zip that and create an exe... Might be a solution for you...
GardnerValemount
i've developed something similar in java, works on os x or windows, open source:
iplaylist copier
[www.worldsworstsoftware.com]
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