For some reason the Music Manager app (to upload music files to the Google Play Music cloud) keeps crashing on my computer. This script checks every 15 seconds if the Music Manager app is running and if not restarts it by running: start MusicManager.exe

MusicManagerAutoRestart.py

# For some reason the Music Manager app (to upload music files to the
# Google Play Music cloud) keeps crashing on my computer.
# This script checks every 15 seconds if the Music Manager app is
# running and if not restarts it by running: start MusicManager.exe

# Python 3.8

import subprocess
import time
import os

executable = os.path.expanduser(
    r'~\AppData\Local\Programs\Google\MusicManager\MusicManager.exe')


def isRunning():
    tasklist = subprocess.getoutput('tasklist')
    return 'MusicManager.exe' in tasklist


def restart():
    os.system(f'start {executable}')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print('Waiting for Music Manager to crash (Ctrl-C to stop):')
    i = 0
    while True:
        if isRunning():
            i += 1
            if i % 5 == 0:
                print('.', end='', flush=True)
                if i % 100 == 0:
                    print('\n')
        else:
            print('!')
            restart()
            print(f'{time.asctime()} - Restarted')
        time.sleep(15)