The idea here is simple; a command line tool that will convert a specified Rhythmbox playlist to Ogg Vorbis and dump the output where you tell it too.

Minimally you can use it like this:

  playlist_converter --name myplaylist
  # or:
  playlist_converter -n myplaylist

The result will be a folder created in the current directory filled with Ogg Vorbis encoded versions of all the songs in the "myplaylist" playlist.

You can also specify where you want the output directory created:

  playlist_converter --name myplaylist --output_dir /media/mike/usb_stick
  # or:
  playlist_converter -n myplaylist -o /media/mike/usb_stick

You will need vorbis-tools installed since the oggenc command is used to encode the files. Also this only works under Python 2 at the moment. (Hence the pyenv .python-version file)

• This probably makes more sense as a Rhythmbox plugin, since is relies on reading Rhythmbox's "private" files.
• Options to output mp3 or other files might be nice.
• Options to modify the encoding quality
• If it makes sense for this to be a CLI tool, a Go rewrite would be nice.
• How does CMUS store its playlist?