ffmpeg error

[austere axle]

im have absolutely 0 knowledge of code, i just want to download my songs, so if i made a mistake that seems really obvious im sorry.
i have python, ffmpeg, and spotdl installed. but when i tried to use spotdl it gave me this message
FFmpegError: FFmpeg is not installed. Please run spotdl --download-ffmpegto install it, or spotdl--ffmpeg/path/to/ffmpeg to specify the path to ffmpeg.

so i tried a Bunch of different ways to input it but no matter what it keeps giving me a message saying spotdl: error: the following arguments are required: query

(the ways that i tried:
spotdl --ffmpeg /path/to/ffmpeg
spotdl --ffmpeg /C:\ffmpeg
SPOTDL --ffmpeg C:\ffmpeg
SPOTDL --ffmpeg /path/to/C:\ffmpeg
SPOTDL --ffmpeg C:\ffmpeg\bin
SPOTDL --ffmpeg C:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg
SPOTDL --ffmpeg C:/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg
spotdl --ffmpeg C:/ffmpeg/bin
spotdl --ffmpeg
spotdl --ffmpeg /path/to/ffmpeg C:/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg
)

im genuinely so lost i dont know what else to try or what im supposed to do. im on windows 11 and i checked all of the versions of things and theyre all up to date. i dont know anymore.

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@austere axle

[austere axle]

im on windows 11 and my spotdl is 4.4.2

[austere axle]

really couldnt figure anything out so i just did the direct download