So, wife want’s to transfer from Spotify to Google Music. Luck would have it that there is a tool to do that.

Quick disclaimer,

• These are the steps I did to get it to work on my Ubuntu 13.04 install
• Portify isn’t fully stable, it stopped/hanged a couple of times

Preparing ubuntu

I’m building as my regular user, feel free to break/comprimise your system by running this is as root, I’m going to start with getting a current version of nodejs and build stuff

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs build-essential

Fetching Source code

Once you got the basics setup, it’s time to get a workdir and the code.

# I work from a Projects folder, feel free to build in any location you like
cd ~/Projects
git clone https://github.com/mauimauer/portify.git
cd portify

Building the code

Now, the Readme tells me that npm install fetches all dependencies, this is a lie!, atleast for me. 🙂

cd ./data
npm install debug formidable methods
npm install superagent socket.io-client connect
npm install buffer-crc32 fresh range-parser
npm install module cookie-signature cookie send
npm install

This should be enough to get it to build

Running and accessing the program

Portify is a deamon that runs as a web application, so to get things going you start it up

cd ./data
node app.js

Now the only thing left to do is access it through your browser. So if it’s running, just click this link http://127.0.0.1:3132

Conclusion

The tool helped me enough to port most playlists from Spotify to Google Music, but it’s not always successfull. And installing is a bit tricky, hope this helps someone.