SomeDL 0.1.2

A command line utility to download songs from youtube with metadata from different APIs without the need for API-tokens or login.

SomeDL - Song+Metadata Downloader

This is a simple commandline program to download music with the correct metadata.

This project is under heavy developement, this README will be updated soon.

Usage

Simply type somedl followed by your search query in quotes. You typically find

somedl "Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit"

You can also search by YouTube or YouTube music URL and even by YouTube playlist URL.

Installation

This utility can be installed using pip.

Windows

pip install somedl

or

py -m pip install somedl

This expects you to have ffmpeg already installed as it is a requirement for yt-dlp to convert the audio files to .mp3. You can verify that you have ffmpeg installed by typing ffmpeg in the commandline. You can install ffmpeg either via winget (more info here) or manually by following a tutorial like this one.

Linux

This software is currently not packaged in any packagemanager or third party repo. Use your prefered way to install pythograms, like for example pipx:

pipx install somedl

FAQ

Why does it download the wrong version of the song?

Rarely a "radio version" or similar has more views than the original version, meaning it is the first result that comes up and therefore the song that gets downloaded by SomeDL. Possible ways to get the correct song:

• Add e.g. "Original" to your search query, for example "Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit original". This might result in the correct song getting downloaded
• Search for the song on youtube music and download by URL. (IMPORTANT: Always use the link of the original soundtrack! Do not use the music video version, this does not have the correct metadata and audio track, so SomeDL has to search youtube again by artist name and song title, resulting in the same issue)