#Download Path on Prebuilt Executable?

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elfin canyon
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I am not sure how to code or anything like that. What should I do to set a proper download location, since it appears nothing is downloading to the folder the exe is in.

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elfin canyon
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SpotDL version 4.1.10

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Windows 11 22H2

cold mesa
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It should be somewhere in your home dir. But you can also use the web-outpur-dir option from spotdl -h

elfin canyon
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I wish I knew what any of that meant. 😦

cold mesa
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Didn't you start spotdl with the command spotdl web from the windows command line?
(Win-key+R, type cmd, hit enter)
There, you can type spotdl -h to get a list of usable options (options are like settings which only count for the current session)

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You use options like this: spotdl web --option1 --option2

elfin canyon
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Nope. I ran the executable.

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Hence the "pre-built executable" in the title. There was an executable on the github so I downloaded it

cold mesa
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Ah okay

patent capeBOT
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Where are my files downloaded / How can I change download location?
By default, spotDL downloads to the working directory aka Where you ran spotDL from

You can change the working directory with cd. On Windows, the default working directory is C:\Users\YOURNAME\

Changing Output Directory

Use the --output flag to change ouput directory, e.g. spotdl download [songUrl] --output /home/music/

You can use flags to specify a custom path template. For example, your music could be sorted into nested folders per album. (spotdl [songUrl] --output '{artist}/{album}/{title} - {artist}.{ext}'
You can use the following variables in your path template: {title}, {artists}, {artist}, {album}, {album-artist}, {genre}, {disc-number}, {disc-count}, {duration}, {year}, {original-date}, {track-number}, {tracks-count}, {isrc}, {track-id}, {publisher}, {list-length}, {list-position}, {list-name}, {output-ext}.

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