SongShift limits you to transferring a single playlist, album, or song at a time unless you sign up for a premium subscription. Finally, TuneMyMusic lets you transfer Spotify's curated playlists-Discover Weekly, Release Radar, Daily Mixes, and more-which isn't possible with SongShift. To download the Spotify app and then play Spotify songs with the app seems to be the only way as we all know that Spotify offers protected songs only, which prevents us from listening to Spotify songs with other media players or downloading any songs from the platform to other devices for offline listening.
Downloads songs from YouTube in an MP3 format by using Spotify's HTTP link.
Can also download a song by entering its artist and song name (in case if you don't have the Spotify's HTTP link for some song).
Automatically fixes song's meta-tags which include:
- Title
- Artist
- Album
- Album art
- Album artist
- Genre
- Track number
- Disc number
- Release date
- And some more...
Works straight out of the box and does not require to generate or mess with your API keys.
That's how your Music library will look like!
Reporting Issues
Search for your problem in the issues section before opening a new ticket. It might be already answered and save us time.
😄 Provide as much information possible when opening your ticket.
Installation & Usage
This version supports Python 3, Python 2 compatibility was dropped because of the way it deals with unicode. If you need to use Python 2 though, check out the
python2branch.Note:
playandlyricscommands have been deprecated in the current brach since they were not of much use and created unnecessary clutter. You can still get them back by usingoldbranch though.
Debian, Ubuntu, Linux & Mac
You'll also need to install FFmpeg for conversion (use --avconv if you'd like to use that instead):
Linux: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Mac: brew install ffmpeg --with-libmp3lame --with-libass --with-opus --with-fdk-aac
If it does not install correctly, you may have to build it from source. For more info see https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide.
Windows
Assuming you have Python 3 already installed and in PATH.
Download and extract the zip file from master branch.
Download FFmpeg for Windows from here. Copy
ffmpeg.exefromffmpeg-xxx-winxx-staticbinffmpeg.exeto PATH (usually C:WindowsSystem32) or just place it in the root directory extracted from the above step.Open
cmdand typepip install -U -r requirements.txtto install dependencies.
Instructions for Downloading Songs
- For all available options, run
python spotdl.py --help.
Download by Name
For example
We want to download Hello by Adele, simply run
python spotdl.py --song 'adele hello'.The script will automatically look for the best matching song and download it in the folder
Music/placed in the root directory of the code base.It will now convert the song to an mp3 and try to fix meta-tags and album-art by looking up on Spotify.
Download by Spotify Link (Recommended)
For example
We want to download the same song (i.e: Hello by Adele) but using Spotify Link this time that looks like
http://open.spotify.com/track/1MDoll6jK4rrk2BcFRP5i7, you can copy it from your Spotify desktop or mobile app by right clicking or long tap on the song and copy HTTP link.Run
python spotdl.py --song http://open.spotify.com/track/1MDoll6jK4rrk2BcFRP5i7, it should download Hello by Adele.Just like before, it will again convert the song to an mp3 but since we used a Spotify HTTP link, the script is guaranteed to fetch the correct meta-tags and album-art.
Download multiple songs at once
For example
- We want to download
Hello by Adele,The Nights by Avicciand21 Guns by Green Dayjust using a single command.
Download A Single Song On A Playlist Spotify Mobile App
Let's suppose, we have the Spotify link for only Hello by Adele and 21 Guns by Green Day.
No problem!
- Just make a
list.txtin the same folder as the script and add all the songs you want to download, in our case it is
(if you are on Windows, just edit list.txt - i.e C:Python36spotify-downloader-masterlist.txt)
Now pass
--list=list.txtto the script, i.epython spotdl.py --list=list.txtand it will start downloading songs mentioned inlist.txt.You can stop downloading songs by hitting
ctrl+c, the script will automatically resume from the song where you stopped it the next time you want to download the songs present inlist.txt.Songs that are already downloaded will be skipped and not be downloaded again.
Download playlists
- You can copy the Spotify URL of the playlist and pass it in
--playlistoption.
For example
python spodl.py --playlist https://open.spotify.com/user/camillazi/playlist/71MXqcSOKCxsLNtRvONkhFThe script will load all the tracks from the playlist into
<playlist_name>.txtThen you can simply run
python spotdl.py --list=<playlist_name>.txtto download all the tracks.
Download playlists by username
You can also load songs using Spotify username if you don't have the playlist URL. (Open profile in Spotify, click on the three little dots below name, 'Share', 'Copy to clipboard', paste last numbers into command-line:
https://open.spotify.com/user/0123456790)Try running
python spotdl.py -u <your_username>, it will show all your public playlists.Once you select the one you want to download, the script will load all the tracks from the playlist into
<playlist_name>.txt.Run
python spotdl.py --list=<playlist_name>.txtto download all the tracks.
Specify the target directory
If you don't want to download all the songs to the Music/ folder relative to the spotdl.py script, you can use the -f/--file option. E.g. python spotdl.py -s 'adele hello' -f '/home/user/Music/'. This works with both relative and absolute paths.
Running tests
Obviously this requires the pytest module to be installed.
Disclaimer
Downloading copyright songs may be illegal in your country. This tool is for educational purposes only and was created only to show how Spotify's API can be exploited to download music from YouTube. Please support the artists by buying their music.

Download A Single Song On A Playlist Spotify Mobile Phone
License
Download A Single Song On A Playlist Spotify Mobile Legends
The MIT License