SpotDL downloads music from YouTube and is designed to always download the highest possible bitrate which is 128 kbps for regular users and 256 kbps for YouTube Music premium users.Ĭheck the Audio Formats page for more info. We do not support unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material and take no responsibility for user actions. Users are responsible for their actions and potential legal consequences. This method is used to avoid any issues related to downloading music from Spotify. SpotDL uses YouTube as a source for music downloads. Meta: Updates metadata for the provided song files. This create a new sync file, to update the directory in the future, use: Save: Saves only the metadata from Spotify without downloading anything. The query for spotDL is usually a list of Spotify URLs, but for some operations like sync, only a single link or file is required.įor a list of all options use spotdl -h Supported operations

The default is download, which simply downloads the songs from YouTube and embeds metadata. There are different operations spotDL can perform.

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