Plex where are playlists

You can run this by directly dragging playlists onto it.
This script is fully unicode compliant.

Running and Troubleshooting

• While this script requires Python 3 (compiled against v3.4), a stand-alone Windows binary version is also available on the URL at the top of this file.
  
• While running the windows executable, if you get an error of The program can't start because MSVCR100.dll is missing..., download the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86).
• If running through the Python source, The Python sqlite3 lib is required, but it should come with Python.
  • If running this mentions something about no such module : FTS4, you may need to replace the sqlite3.dll or sqlite3.so for your Python, which can be found at https://www.sqlite.org/download.html .
    • For a Python for Windows install, the DLL location will most likely be located at one of the following locations:
      • C:\Python%PYTHON_VERSION%\DLLs
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\Python%PYTHON_VERSION%-32\DLLs
      • C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python%PYTHON_VERSION%\DLLs

Parameters:

usage:
PlexPlaylistImporter.py [-h] [-p Given_DB_Path] [-e Playlist_Encoding] [-t File_Type_Override] [-f] Playlist_Path Plex_Playlist_Name

positional arguments:

optional arguments:

The only playlist type that is currently supported is Winamp playlists (.m3u).
Playlist importers just collect the absolute files names, and others can easily be dropped into the Importers directory without any other code changes.
While the M3U importer (Importers/M3U.py) is the most appropriate to use as a template, I included a second example one (PTL.py) which just pulls in absolute file names with no error checks.

PlexPlaylistImporter.sh is just included to force proper Unicode (utf-8) encoding and column widths on the console.

How it works

The songs you want to play have to already exist in the Plex database.
When you add a song to Plex (through Plex), it stores the songs full file path in the Plex database. What this script does is derive all the full song paths in a playlist file that you give it, checks those paths against Plexs database, and then adds the matches in the proper order into the Plex playlist you specified.
So for this reason, the script must be ran on the same computer running the Plex server so that it can match the paths. (There are, of course, workarounds to this. However, I highly recommend against it, as I have found that doing this may corrupt the Plex server database).

Creating the executable

python setup.py py2exe