Locate albums in iTunes with a low aggregate play count (Python 2)

noPlay.py

import plistlib, sys
from pprint import pprint

delimiter = '~'

def scan(srcRoot, playLimit):
    albumMap = {}
    for trackId, attributes in srcRoot['Tracks'].iteritems():
        albumName = attributes.get('Album')
        artistName = attributes.get('Album Artist')
        if albumName is None or artistName is None:
            continue

        itemKey = (albumName, artistName)
        playCount = attributes.get('Play Count', 0)
        albumMap[itemKey] = albumMap.get(itemKey, 0) + playCount

    for key, value in albumMap.iteritems():
        if value <= playLimit:
            print key[0] + delimiter + key[1] + delimiter + str(value)

def run(srcPath, playLimit):
    print '-- loading', srcPath
    srcRoot = plistlib.readPlist(srcPath)
    scan(srcRoot, playLimit)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print "python noPlay.py LIBRARY_PATH PLAY_LIMIT"
        print "  LIBRARY_PATH: path to iTunes XML file"
        print "    PLAY_LIMIT: max number of track plays to show"
        sys.exit(1)
    run(sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2]))

To use:

python2 noPlay.py ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Library.xml 0