Instrumental-Downloader

A command line tool to download a song's instrumental from Youtube.

Installation

If you don't have pip, install it here: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

First, you need to install ffprobe/ ffmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

1. Download the build for your OS
2. Extract the program folder from the download
3. Add the program folder to the system PATH:
   Windows
   Mac
   Linux

Then, use pip3 to install:

pip3 install instrumental-dl

Description

Instrumental-downloader was created as a command-line tool used to download a list of instrumentals based on just the song name.(and sometimes the artist is needed to identify the song) This tool is based off of youtube-dl, a tool used to download youtube videos from their url. The Python interpreter version 3.6+ is needed for this program. FFprobe/ ffmpeg needs to be installed in the PATH, as that is the program used to download instrumentals as mp3 files.

instrumental-dl -f FILE_NAME
instrumental-dl -s "SONG_NAMES" ["SONG_NAMES"...]
  (with -s the song name needs to be in quotations
  if it contains any spaces)

Options

INFO
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-h, --help              Print the help text and exit
--version               Print the current version and exit

ONE REQUIRED
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-f, --file             Open this file and download each song
                        name in the file as an instrumental
                        (each song name should be on a seperate line)
-s, --songs            Download each song name as an instrumental
                        (can be multiple song names)

OPTIONS
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-v, --verbose           Verbose: Print out each download and conversion.
                        Also gives detailed time elapsed description.
-o, --output            Change the directory where the songs are
                        downloaded to.

TODO

- Download album cover for song to use as file icon
- Check for wrong instrumental downloads
- New file renaming system

- GUI Application
    - Add gui interaction for Windows, MacOS, and Linux