[WS] Google Play Music

[vikaesar]

Hi everyone!

I was looking for a Google Play Music tag source a couple of days ago and only could find one that worked partially so I have been improving it and it's now working for me.

You can try it and make suggestions or tell me how to improve it. Enjoy!

Google Play Music v1.03.src (9.0 KB)

Changelog

[2019-05-15] v1.03
     CHANGE: Revamped script code that works with the obfuscated HTML
             structure currently used on Google Play Music web pages.

Deprecated, non-working script versions:

Google Play Music v1.02.src (22.3 KB)

[2018-11-22] v1.02
        FIX: albums with no genre information were not parsed correctly.
        FIX: multi-disc albums were not parsed correctly.
             Now working for up to 20-disc albums.

Google Play Music v1.01.src (13.6 KB)

[2018-11-22] v1.01
        FIX: multi-disc albums were not parsed correctly.

Google Play Music.src (6.7 KB)

[2018-11-19] v1.00 based on Tag Source for Google Play Music by SheepKid12

Please note, the tag source works only in countries where Google Play Music is available at the moment.

List of countries

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.

[richard.fuermann]

Hello,
I get the following error message:
Error connecting to server: play.google.com

403:Forbidden

[vikaesar]

Maybe it works for me because I had signed into my Google account in a web browser before using Mp3tag. It seems weird because the script is using the Google Play Music store web page and that is public to browse.

Check this URL in your web browser:

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Dover%20Complications&c=music&hl=en

Tell me if it works for you too. Anyways, I'll look into it.

[oempaloempa]

For me it's working, but I have to admit, I am also logged in with google (already for years, so they know everything from me )

[poster]

@oempaloempa

For me it's working, but I have to admit, I am also logged in with google

It works for me (with the known bugs) and I am not logged into a google account.

[skippy]

Working or not, it depends on where you are, I guess.

[richard.fuermann]

Thanks,
I have the same problem with the link as User skippy
I think if it works depends on the country

[vikaesar]

This is the country availability for Google Play Music at this moment:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.

The tag source script should work for everyone connecting from one of these countries. I don't know if some kind of web proxy URL could be used in the script to bypass this regional restriction. We'll see.

[vikaesar]

I have been working on the bug that involved parsing multi-disc albums and now is mostly fixed. The script parses all data provided by Google Play Music for up to 8-disc albums. This should be enough for every album available out there.

Google Play Music v1.01.src (13.6 KB)

Changelog:

[2018-11-22] v1.01
        FIX: multi-disc albums were not parsed correctly.
[2018-11-19] v1.00 based on Tag Source for Google Play Music by SheepKid12

[poster]

@vikaesar
Many thanks for your work

Known bugs: When parsing multi-disc albums with more than 8 albums –do they
even exist on Google Play?– then the total tracks for every disc
past the eight one aren't parsed correctly.

You are too optimistic.
Of course there are. Here some examples for testing:

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Hank_Williams_The_Complete_Hank_Williams?id=B5ql6q4g6et4bbeab4fejr6yjvi&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/David_Bowie_A_New_Career_In_A_New_Town_1977_1982?id=Bse4cyvlck4tjtrqcmww7qx3i3q&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Yes_The_Studio_Albums_1969_1987?id=B3g54lac464z4pwnn3dubq2e3dm&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/The_Academy_of_Ancient_Music_Mozart_The_Symphonies?id=B537eftg4lilae4byfy7dyv4jri&hl=en

[poster]

This one does not work:

Robert Earl Keen - Best

[vikaesar]

Well, here we go:

I've modified the script again to support parsing up to 20-disc albums. This should suffice (for now).

In addition, I've fixed the problem with (weird) albums that don't have any genre information, like the Robert Earl Keen's one you reported above.

Google Play Music v1.02.src (22.3 KB)

Changelog:

[2018-11-22] v1.02
        FIX: albums with no genre information were not parsed correctly.
        FIX: multi-disc albums were not parsed correctly.
             Now working for up to 20-disc albums.

[tydaa]

hi,
this script ist really usefull!

can you fix it ?

thank you!

[vikaesar]

It seems Google has obfuscated the document structure of the Google Play Music album pages. Now it is quite more difficult to parse all the data the script did before, so I don't know if it can be fixed at all.

I'll take a look into it and see what can be done.

[vikaesar]

I have finally had the time to fix the script so it can work with the current Google Play Music web pages, which have their document structure obfuscated. Here it is:

Google Play Music v1.03.src (9.0 KB)

Changelog:

[2019-05-15] v1.03
     CHANGE: Revamped script code that works with the obfuscated HTML
             structure currently used on Google Play Music web pages.

[tydaa]

Big THX. Now I Can Fix My Other Tags.

Thank You!

[poster]

@vikaesar
Google Play Music v.1.03.src does not work here anymore. (no search result)
It would be nice if you could fix it.

[dano]

Only few changes were needed so here is a fix:
Google Play Music.zip (2.9 KB)

[SvD]

Hello,
Is there a way to only download Cover Art with this script and exclude every other tags?