dabcli 2.1.7

DAB CLI — A command-line interface for browsing and downloading music from DAB Music Player.

🎧 DAB CLI

DAB CLI is an advanced, extensible, and user-friendly command-line tool for accessing DABMusic — a free, open-source digital music library and streaming service.
It supports searching, downloading, metadata tagging, artist discography downloads, local streaming, and more — all from your terminal.

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🚀 What's New in v2.0

• Smarter Downloader: Skips existing files; supports pause/resume/stop
• Artist Discography Download: Fetch all albums by artist name or ID
• Enhanced MPV IPC Player: Stream tracks, albums, libraries, or queues with live metadata, timers, and playback controls (space=play/pause, arrows=next/prev, q=quit)
• Lyrics & Cover Embedding: Auto-download covers and lyrics
• Metadata Overrides: Customize title, artist, album, genre, date, and path during downloads
• Version Checking & Improved CLI Help: Always know if your CLI is up-to-date

v2.0 makes downloads smarter, streaming interactive, and metadata fully customizable.

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📦 Installation

1. Install directly from PyPI

pip install --upgrade dabcli
cd dabcli

2. Hurray! It's that simple.

dabcl

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🔐 Authentication

Login to DAB

dabcli login "<email>" "<password>" 

Logout

dabcli logout

Check Login Status

dabcli status

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🔍 Search

By default, searching checks tracks, albums, and artists. Use --type to restrict:

dabcli search "<query>"

dabcli search "<query>" --type track

dabcli search "<query>" --type album

dabcli search "<query>" --type artist

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⬇️ Downloads

All downloads support metadata overrides:

--format mp3|flac --title "<title>" --artist "<artist>" --album "<album>" --genre "<genre>" --date "<YYYY-MM-DD>" --path "<custom/path>"

1. Download a Single Track

Search by track name or ID (search first, then select):

dabcli track "<track-id>" [metadata overrides]

2. Download an Album

dabcli album "<album-id or title>" [metadata overrides]

3. Download a Library

List all user libraries

dabcli library

Download A Library

dabcli library <library-id> [--view-only] [metadata overrides]

4. Download an Artist Discography

dabcli discography "<artist name or ID>" [--view-only] [metadata overrides]

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▶️ Streaming

Stream tracks, albums, libraries, or queues:

dabcli play --track-id <id>
dabcli play --album-id <id>
dabcli play --library-id <id>
dabcli play --queue <id1> <id2> <id3>

Interactive controls while streaming:

• Space: Play/Pause
• < / >: Previous/Next
• q: Quit

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♥️ Favorites

List all user favorites:

dabcli favorites

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🔄 Updates & Version Check

Check Current Version

dabcli --version

Run an Update

dabcli update 

Note: If update fails, run

pip install --upgrade dabcli
python3 dabcli.py --version

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⚙️ Configuration

After first launch, a config.json file will be created automatically (usually in your platform’s app data directory).

Example:

{
    "output_format": "flac",
    "output_directory": "/your/music/directory",
    "use_metadata_tagging": true,
    "stream_quality": "25",
    "stream_player": "mpv",
    "test_mode": false,
    "delete_raw_files": true,
    "keep_cover_file": false,
    "get_lyrics": true,
    "base_url": "https://dabmusic.xyz/api",
    "debug": false,
    "show_progress": true,
    "config_version": 1
}

NOTE: You can set-up configs interactively using dabcli config or find the config.json file location using dabcli config --path.

Config Options

• output_format: "flac" or "mp3" — format for downloaded tracks
• output_directory: Directory where all downloads will be saved
• stream_quality: "27" = FLAC, "5" = MP3 — controls quality of streaming/downloads
• stream_player: Player used for streaming (currently only mpv supported)
• delete_raw_files: Whether to delete the raw files.
• get_lyrics: Download and embed lyrics into tracks if available
• keep_cover_file: Keep a separate cover image file per track/album, or only embed it in metadata
• show_progress: Whether to show progress using tqdm or not.
• test_mode, debug, `version: Developer side configurations, not intended for users.

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🧩 Dependencies

• Python 3.7+
• Python packages: requests, mutagen, tqdm, tabulate
• External tools: mpv (optional, for streaming)

pip install -r requirements.txt

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🌐 About DABMusic

DABMusic is a community-driven open-source platform providing high-quality, unrestricted music streaming and downloads.

• Website: dabmusic.xyz
• Discord: Join the community

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👥 Credits

• Developer: sherlockholmesat221b
• superadmin0 (Creator of DABMusic)
• Contributors and Testers: joehacks, uimaxbai

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📝License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2025 sherlockholmesat221b

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This software is provided for educational and archival purposes only. It does not host or distribute music files, nor circumvent DRM. Users are responsible for complying with all applicable laws. The software is distributed AS IS and the author claims no legal liability of any kind.