Preload Function

[unkempt iris]

Hello. First time user here. I generated a preload file (it took about 15 hours), with the expectation of accelerating download times. And now I don't know how to use it to accelerate the whole download process.

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@unkempt iris

[slim scarab]

how long was your playlist if it took you 15h????

to use the save file, just put it in the query and you should be good to go.

spotdl download myFile.spotdl

[unkempt iris]

It was 3,750 songs. And thank you for the response.

[unkempt iris]

I get this error when doing that:
My exact command was: spotdl download ThePlaylist.spotdl.
Am I missing something?

My copy paste of the command prompt text failed.

[slim scarab]

what version are you using?

can you upload your spotdl file

[unkempt iris]

Here's the file I'm trying to use.
As far as version, -v gives me 4.1.6.
I installed via [pip install spotdl] I believe.

I'm making a new preload test file with a single song to see if maybe something is just weird with this one.

It seems a newly generated single-song preload file functioned as expected.

[unkempt iris]

Now further testing. I accidentally copied over my preload file with my metadata file (generated and kept for the sole purpose of a text copy of my spotify playlist). But I didn't realize until after I ran the download function that I did that. Yet it threw no errors and started downloading?
Putting the actual preload file back yielded the same errors. Putting it in a new folder yielded the same errors.