tommy-mor/songs-to-youtube

open source alternative to sites like TunesToTube, audioship, tovid.io, etc

songs-to-youtube

Convert audio files to videos and upload them to YouTube automatically.

Features

• Extracts album covers from audio files
• Extracts other metadata which can be used in template strings for the video title/description etc.
• Can concatenate songs to upload an album as a single video
• Can upload an album as a playlist of multiple videos
• Encodes multiple videos in parallel
• Supports multiple users, multiple presets
• Does not use YouTube API; upload up to 50-100 videos per day

Pre-installation

• FFmpeg binary is required to convert songs into videos
• Firefox and geckodriver binaries are required to upload to YouTube
• Make sure FFmpeg and geckodriver are both in your PATH environment variable

Installation

There are two ways to install this program:

PyInstaller

Download the latest release for your platform here, unzip the archive, and run the songs-to-youtube executable.

Run from source

If you have issues running the exectuable, you can try running the program from the source code:

1. Download the source code
2. Install required Python modules with python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Run the program with python3 main.py

Notes

• Before you upload any videos, you must sign in to a YouTube account (File > Settings > Add new user)
• You can drag and drop songs on the main window to add them to the queue. The order in which they are uploaded goes from top to bottom
• You can also drag and drop images onto a song's current album art to change it
• You probably shouldn't change the output file extension from .avi
• You can use acodec copy in the FFmpeg command to avoid re-encoding audio, but beware that it will cause weird errors for certain audio codecs, including FLAC
• YouTube titles and descriptions do not allow angled brackets in them

Template strings

Write ~{key} in any text field and it will be replaced with an appropriate value. To see the available keys, right click on an album or song and select "View metadata." Here are some useful values:

Song metadata

• ~{song_dir} - directory of the input audio file
• ~{song_file} - file name of the input audio
• ~{tags.album} - name of the song's album
• ~{tags.artist} - name of the song's artist
• ~{tags.title} - name of the song
• ~{tags.date} - year of release
• ~{tags.comment.text} - comment used by bandcamp to link to the artist's page

Album metadata

• ~{album_dir} - directory of the album
• ~{timestamps} - special key that generates timestamps based on song lengths
• ~{song.tags.artist} - name of the album's artist (usually)

The first song of an album can have its keys accessed by the album by prefixing the key with song.