Unconventional solution for NAS based file sync

[Ephoras]

So, i build this during the last few days because i wanted a solution to wirelessly sync my playlists with my Android 14 Pixel phone. The Wifi app does not realiably work for me annd i had an actual shower idea of a solution that might work for me.

My music is stored on my NAS and i consume it mostly through smart playlists, so they are connstanntly channging. Also when i am at my pc i often forget to sync my phone manually so i was looking for a solution that leverages the fact that my NAS is always on and has the music anyways.

so i created a python script wrapped in a docker container that reads the static exports of my playlists and creates a new folder with all tracks contained in those playlists. These are hard linked not copied to save space onn my drive and make the process quite quick.

This new folder can then be synced continiusly to my phone via syncthing.

i am not a programmer, i do videos, UI/ UX Design and a bit of web design, so all of the code for this comes from google bard and chatGPT 3.5
it's a bit of a mess i would think and if someone wants to take this as an inspiration to make something more usefull the licence should permit it.

Code is on github: https://github.com/TobiasDax/musicbee_playlist_sync
and the image on Dockerhub: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/tobiasdax/musicbee_playlist_sync/general

Would be quite interested in some feedback and as i said, help in making this a bit more usefull/ polished.

[The Incredible Boom Boom]

This is probably the most interesting "take matters into your own hands" scenario I've come across on the MusicBee forums. Lol

Have you, however, considered setting up a music server to perform this same function? I'm not too satisfied with this solution, but Navidrome is able to read my exported playlists and I use the app Synfonium to play them when I'm not at a computer.

[Ephoras]

Yeah, not the most clever solution I know

Also right after I got it working I realised that I can just setup a folder on my nas as a virtual device and use the native sync function….so yeah, this is already obsolete ….


I looked into navidrome before I settled on musicbee, maybe that would also be a good solution for me now everything is set up here…. Thanks for the tip

[AisSora]

This is probably the most interesting "take matters into your own hands" scenario I've come across on the MusicBee forums. Lol

Have you, however, considered setting up a music server to perform this same function? I'm not too satisfied with this solution, but Navidrome is able to read my exported playlists and I use the app Synfonium to play them when I'm not at a computer.

This is exactly what I'm planning to do, but I only have it in theory so far; I wanna keep using musicbee as my PC player, and use it for playlist management and such, but since im building a NAS, i figured having some kinda of streaming capability would be good.
I would love to hear how your experience has been with that setup so far? Any tools / scripts you would recommend? any things to look out for? I would really appreciate your input <3

[The Incredible Boom Boom]

This is exactly what I'm planning to do, but I only have it in theory so far; I wanna keep using musicbee as my PC player, and use it for playlist management and such, but since im building a NAS, i figured having some kinda of streaming capability would be good.
I would love to hear how your experience has been with that setup so far? Any tools / scripts you would recommend? any things to look out for? I would really appreciate your input <3

Sorry for the getting to this post until now.
For playing the music I manage through MusicBee, Navidrome is great. My annoyances with it are not really justified - they are mostly due to the fact I have made extensive use of Custom Tags and Virtual Tags to display track information in a way that's impossible to replicate with other applications. MusicBee has a much more powerful auto-playlist creator, but you can easily get these playlists to Navidrome by exporting them and pointing Navidrome to that folder.

[AisSora]

This is exactly what I'm planning to do, but I only have it in theory so far; I wanna keep using musicbee as my PC player, and use it for playlist management and such, but since im building a NAS, i figured having some kinda of streaming capability would be good.
I would love to hear how your experience has been with that setup so far? Any tools / scripts you would recommend? any things to look out for? I would really appreciate your input <3

Sorry for the getting to this post until now.
For playing the music I manage through MusicBee, Navidrome is great. My annoyances with it are not really justified - they are mostly due to the fact I have made extensive use of Custom Tags and Virtual Tags to display track information in a way that's impossible to replicate with other applications. MusicBee has a much more powerful auto-playlist creator, but you can easily get these playlists to Navidrome by exporting them and pointing Navidrome to that folder.

Hey, Thank you for the response! That's what I ended up doing actually! I just have my playlists auto export, and I have a job setup that executes a python script modifies those playlists to be navidrome friendly (since it's running on a container), and then moves those new modified copies to a folder where navidrome can read. It's been working nicely enough so far ^^