PSA From an active user of SpotDL

[valid edge]

During the downtime, what i did to download songs is i used This service
However, it can only do 100 songs at a time. So i made a basic tutorial on how to split your playlist into 100 song chunks. Some basic interpretation is required to follow this tutorial, and it is for the website and the desktop app ONLY!!! no mobile users, sorry...

PLEASE READ!!!

This tutorial is only for individual users of SpotDL, not developers. If you're a developer just get a custom client-id and client-secret from spotify, however theyre doing some restructuring currently, so you may have to wait for a while for them to unlock making new apps.

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@valid edge

[valid edge]

This works on windows, linux, and mac.

there will be ONLY 100 (or less, depends on the playlist size) songs per zip file so make sure to extract them to a DEDICATED folder for music, so in my case i wouldve made a folder in my /home/ramen/Music/spotdl directory
if you're on windows navigate to C:\Users\YOURNAME\Music\ and make a folder called something like "Local Playlist" and extract the .zip files to that folder

Now, i do not own a Mac so i do not know how their file management works, however i found this tutorial for MacOS users

On mac and linux if you REALLY wish to use the terminal to make your directories i got commands for you

[user@machine Music]$ mkdir 'Playlist Name'```

On windows (using powershell) the setup is quite similar!

PS C:\Users\User\Music> mkdir 'Playlist Name'```

Here is how to unzip on windows as well.

If you need further help just ping me!
@valid edge

[empty moth]

what a goat

[valid edge]

thanks

[supple berry]

but after i downoad trakcs, all of them have the site url as their name

[valid edge]

no they don't? just the zip file has the name, at least from my experience

the metadata should have the regular song name

[supple berry]

wait l eme try, thanks

[valid edge]

open properties, check the song name

[supple berry]

the thing is, when i put it in my ipod it still shows the spotidownloader thing

[valid edge]

really..?

[supple berry]

yup, sadly

[valid edge]

did you download this song standalone?

[supple berry]

yes, you should use spotfetch, works perfectly but sadly takes them from yt

tho it has no limit and can be downloaded from github

there are may tutorials

[valid edge]

but did you download the song standalone?

if so, that's your problem.

i downloaded a whole playlist in the tutorial and used the "download all" option

[supple berry]

hmm ill try that

[supple berry]

@valid edge after spliting my playlist of 450 songs to 4 playlists of 100 and one of 50, i noticed that the .zip that came out had less thatn 100

some had 54 others 37

[valid edge]

thats odd...

hmm

im unsure how that happened.

[supple berry]

my playlists are exactly 100 songs

want me to send you one and you try to download it and open it?

amnd tell me how many songs it has

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6OvKjejhK092qHnrH0QmA0?si=299cec27ab9d4618

take this one as an example

[valid edge]

sure

[supple berry]

tell me when you do

[supple berry]

@valid edge :P

are you able to do it now or should i go to sleep

i can undnerstand if u cant i just wana make sure

[valid edge]

my fault!!!!!!!!!

i forgot about the thread tbh

sorry

[supple berry]

haha np, you're already doing me a favor in all of this so dw, please ping me when you download the playlist i sent you

[valid edge]

downloaded fine

well, 5 didnt download

maybe it wasnt able to find them..?

[supple berry]

so 95 of them did get downloaded?

[valid edge]

yes

[supple berry]

wierd, ill have to try again

[lofty comet]

@valid edge lowk got a corrupted file when downloading

[valid edge]

tends to happen, maybe redownload?

[forest junco]

this is pretty great but it doesnt have all the metadata which i would like (like genre, lyrics, disc) but the default quality of download seems to be 320kbps so a great alternative till things get fixed

and the date metadata all seems to be 1970 so if anyone is curious you would want to fix that too

[hushed kernel]

What do you mean that it doesn't support mobile? It clearly does.