How To Download Spotify Playlist Without Premium On Computer UPDATED

The fastest, easiest, and near accurate command-line music downloader

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What spotDL does

Downloads music from YouTube as an MP3 file
Applies basic metadata gathered from Spotify such as:
- Track Proper noun
- Runway Number
- Album
- Album Cover
- Genre
- and more!

Redesigned

spotDL is being redesigned! This means nosotros are currently not accepting new characteristic requests. You can talk to us on our Discord if at that place is annihilation further.

Prerequisites

Python three.6.ane or in a higher place (added to PATH)
FFmpeg 4.2 or in a higher place (added to PATH)

YouTube Music must be bachelor in your state for spotDL to work. This is because we use YouTube Music to filter search results. Yous can check if YouTube Music is bachelor in your country, by visiting YouTube Music.

Installation

Installing FFmpeg

Windows Tutorial
OSX - mash install ffmpeg
Linux - sudo apt install ffmpeg

Installing spotDL

Recommended Stable Version:

Dev Version: (Non STABLE)

pip install https://codeload.github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/zip/dev

If you have problem installing spotdl take a look at the extended installation guide hither or ask for assist in our discord server

On Termux

curl -Fifty https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/master/termux/setup_spotdl.sh              |              sh

Arch

There is an Arch User Repository (AUR) bundle for spotDL.

Usage

To download a song, run

example:

spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b

To download an album, run

case:

spotdl https://open up.spotify.com/anthology/4yP0hdKOZPNshxUOjY0cZj

To download a playlist, run

instance:

spotdl https://open up.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8UXBoz02kGID

To download all songs from an creative person run

example:

spotdl https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fZAAHNWdSM5gqbi9o5iEA

To search for and download a song, run, with quotation marks

example:

spotdl                                      'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights'

Note: This is not accurate and often causes errors.

To resume a failed/incomplete download, run

spotdl [pathToTrackingFile]

example:

spotdl                                      'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights.spotdlTrackingFile'

Note: .spotdlTrackingFilesouthward are automatically created when a download starts and deleted on completion

Y'all can queue up multiple download tasks by separating the arguments with spaces

spotdl [songQuery1] [albumUrl] [songQuery2] ... (order does not thing)

example:

spotdl                                      'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights'                                    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8UXBoz02kGID ...

Note: spotDL downloads up to iv songs in parallel, so for a faster experience, download albums and playlist, rather than tracks.

To download youtube video with metadata from spotify, run

spotdl                                      "YouTubeURL|SpotifyURL"

example:

spotdl                                      "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO7XnC1YpVo|https://open.spotify.com/rails/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3"

Note: Urls have to be separated with | and quoted properly ex. "YouTubeURL|SpotifyUrl"

To download songs with different output format run

spotdl [songUrl] --output-format mp3/m4a/flac/opus/ogg/wav

example:

spotdl [songUrl] --output-format opus

To utilise ffmpeg binary that is not on PATH run

spotdl [songUrl] --ffmpeg path/to/your/ffmpeg.exe

case:

spotdl [songUrl] --ffmpeg C:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe

To generate .m3u file for each playlist run

spotdl [playlistUrl] --m3u

example:

                  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8UXBoz02kGID --m3u

To use youtube instead of youtube music run

spotdl [songUrl] --use-youtube

example:

                  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3 --use-youtube

To manually choose a lyrics provider, run

                  spotdl [songUrl] --lyrics-provider lyrics_provider

bachelor lyrics providers:

genius
musixmatch

example:

                  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3 --lyrics-provider genius

To change number of threads used when downloading songs run

spotdl [songUrl] --dt [number]

example:

spotdl https://open.spotify.com/rail/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3 --dt 8

To change number of threads used when searching for songs run

spotdl [songUrl] --st [number]

instance:

spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3 --st 8

To ignore your ffmpeg version run

spotdl [songUrl] --ignore-ffmpeg-version

To use path template

spotdl [songUrl] --path-template                                      'template'

example:

spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b --path-template                                      '{creative person}/{album}/{championship} - {artist}.{ext}'

possible values:

{artist}
{artists}
{title}
{album}
{ext}
{playlist}

`pipx` Isolated Environment Alternative

For users who are not familiar with pipx, it can exist used to run scripts without installing the spotDL package and all the dependencies globally with pip. (Effectively skipping over the spotDL Installation footstep)

First, you volition need to install pipx by running:

python3 -g pip install --user pipx python3 -1000 pipx ensurepath

Next, you can jump direct to running spotDL with:

Contributor Guide

Interested in contributing? Check out our CONTRIBUTING.md to find resource around contributing along with a guide on how to ready up a development environment.

Contributors

contributors

Authors

@ritiek for creating and maintaining spotDL for iv years
@rocketinventor for figuring out YouTube Music querying
@MikhailZex for, never listen...

License

MIT

How To Download Spotify Playlist Without Premium On Computer UPDATED