GitHub - Schachte/better-sync: An open-source alternative to Garmin Express for syncing Spotify Playlists to your Garmin devices

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⌚ Better Sync

The missing alternative to Garmin Express

A command-line tool that uses MTP (Media Transport Protocol) to manually manage Spotify playlists and music on your Garmin device. This is a replacement option to Garmin Express.

Note: I'm currently working on a desktop GUI for this tool.

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Installation

Requirements

  • libusb - Required for device communication

  • ffmpeg - Required for audio processing

  • pip - Required for using third-party Python libs (Spotify downloader)

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install spotdl

From Source

  1. Make sure you have Go 1.19 or newer installed
  2. Clone the repository
  3. Build the project:
git clone https://github.com/schachte/better-sync.git
cd better-sync
make build && ./build/better-sync

Usage

Basic Usage

# Run the CLI in development mode
make dev

# Build the CLI application
make build

# Run the UI application in development mode
make app-dev

# Build the UI application
make app-build

Packaging

brew install libusb

# get libusb path from brew
LIBUSB_PATH=$(brew --prefix libusb)
sudo install_name_tool -id "@executable_path/libusb.dylib" "$LIBUSB_PATH/lib/libusb-1.0.0.dylib"

# copy the dynamic library to the project
cp "$LIBUSB_PATH/lib/libusb-1.0.0.dylib" ./libusb.dylib

# confirm whether the libusb.dylib is portable
otool -L libusb.dylib

# the output should look: libusb.dylib: @executable_path/libusb.dylib
git add libusb.dylib

Environment Variables

# Optional for various Spotify API calls
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=<redacted>
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=<redacted>