Comment on YouTube Music Downloader
dgdft@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yt-dlp is the gold-standard for that.
Yeah I am using yt-dlp to download the music, and I can set that on a cronjob no problem.
I am specifically asking for better downloading (I don’t want just the raw YouTube title most of the time), album art, and ID3 tagging. But that beets.io thing looks super cool! I might integrate that into my existing python scripting instead of trying to build it all out myself
Just to throw out an easy option: if the music is well-labeled on Youtube, you can get pretty close to that full suite with just yt-dlp by using –embed-thumbnail as a stand-in for album art, dump your files with an “Artist - track - album” naming structure using the –output-template flag — then using an awk or python script as a second pss to add the artist/track/album names to the file as tags.
Haha unfortunately the music on YouTube is not especially well managed. Ive been using YouTube for music for a long time so a lot of my music is uploaded by Vevo or “{Artist} - Topic” and stuff like that. Plus (IIRC) YouTube music doesn’t give things like what album a song is from or when it was released
Download with yt-dlp. All of it. Even into a single folder if that’s easier.
Then run it all through Picard and that’ll do everything else for you - albumart, metadata, folders, filenames, the lot.
Anything that Picard doesn’t know about, enter it into the MusicBrainz db to give back to the community.
Done.
Every single tool that downloads from YouTube is just a yt-dlp wrapper 😀
tux0r@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
If you prefer Rust, yaydl (disclosure: I wrote it) would be an alternative. (Patches welcome - right now, I much depend on Invidious to get YouTube contents.)