Easily sync all of your favorite music from Jellyfin to an mp3 player of your choice.

This is a simple script to gather and dump all of your favorited music to a directory, perhaps for use with syncthing. Audio files are transcoded to V0 MP3s, preserving metadata. Album covers are also downloaded and saved as cover.$ext in the album directory.

The only non-standard library required is requests, which can be installed using apt install python3-requests if it hasn't been already. The transcoding relies on ffmpeg, which should already be installed if you're using Jellyfin, though you may have to add it to your PATH.

Some configuration is required in config.json:

• SERVER_URL: The URL of your Jellyfin server, defaults to localhost.
• API_KEY: Your Jellyfin API key, which can be found in the dashboard under "Advanced".
• USER_ID: Your Jellyfin user ID. When on your user page, this is located in the url.
• SYNC_FOLDER: The directory to sync to. This is the directory that will be filled with your favorited music. Defaults to something in /tmp (which will be emptied on shutdown), change to your desired file system location for persistence.

Once these dependencies are met and the config is set, I recommend simply setting up a cron task to run the script at a regular interval. For example, to run it every night at 3:00 AM, open your crontab with crontab -e and add the line 0 3 * * * python3 /path/to/jellyfin-favorites-dump/pull.py.

This script has only been tested on Linux, but I expect it to work on any platform that supports Python and ffmpeg. If you have any issues, please open an issue and I will do my best to help.

The script is hardcoded to transcode to V0 MP3s, but this can be easily changed inside the sync_audio function if you have different ffmpeg arguments in mind. If you want to use a different codec altogether, remember to change the extension hardcoded in the sync_filepath property of the Audio class.

I encourage anyone to open an issue if they have any feature requests or bug reports. In the meantime, I will continue to develop this for my personal use.