#Trouble installing

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regal ice
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Hello,

I just learned about SpotDL and I figured it'd streamline what I'm trying to do. I want to download songs for my partner who's currently stuck without internet. I started off just manually doing yt-mp4 through browser one song at a time but as you can imagine it was way too tedious.

Anyways, I'm trying to install and run spotDL v4.2.11

I'm on windows 11 64 bit, 24H2.

I tried downloading python and going through all the pip install processes but nothing happened when I got to the end of the prompts in the instructions.

I then tried to just download and run from the github but I downloaded the zip and tried to look for an executable but I couldn't find it an I don't want to mess around with stuff in there too much.

I have some pretty basic knowledge of python and VS, but idk it's either the sleep deprivation or I'm just in over my head.

I'm probably gonna go to bed after posting this so I apologize if I don't respond until tomorrow.

warped hamletBOT
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@regal ice

inland notch
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my guess is 'spotdl is not recognized'

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'spotdl' is not recognized

warped hamletBOT
regal ice
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yeah I did do that

inland notch
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screenshot of your error then please

regal ice
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alright

inland notch
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ur msg didnt really identify what was going wrong just " but nothing happened when I got to the end of the prompts in the instructions"

regal ice
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well I never really got an error message. It said everything installed just fine in the terminal. I just couldn't figure out what to do next. It's not super clear.

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it just says "Web UI will start by default if no arguments are passed to the command line (after double-clicking for example)" so I figured I should just wait once the installation is complete

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after that the tutorial talks about the docker. I don't really know what that is or whether I need it.

inland notch
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To download a song, run

spotdl download [trackUrl]
example:

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

regal ice
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ah okay

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seems like it worked

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Now I just need to see where it's downloading to and potentially change the path

warped hamletBOT
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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}.

regal ice
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gotcha thx!

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I think that's all I needd