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[nivshapira211]

hello
I am trying to use the sporify_dl as a windows user, and I haven't figure what I need to do with the environment variables.
can you please explain it to me?
note that I added the vars to my system environment variables but it still not working.

[SathyaBhat]

note that I added the vars to my system environment variables but it still not working.

What vars did you add? How did you add? Did you reboot your computer after adding>

[d-bunny]

Hi, I have a few questions:
Most of the songs I've downloaded through spotify-dl are not the songs that are on Spotify but rather unrelated songs with similar titles. I see that it approximates the song on Spotify to a YouTube video by downloading the first search result.
Is there a way to ensure that the video it downloads and converts is accurately matched to the particular song on Spotify? Some more obscure songs might not always be the first result.
Also, am I right to assume that I can't download the songs if there's not a YouTube video that matches it?
What would you recommend for accessing material that is on Spotify but not YouTube?
Thank you.

[SathyaBhat]

Hi @d-bunny

I see that it approximates the song on Spotify to a YouTube video by downloading the first search result.

Yes, that is correct

Is there a way to ensure that the video it downloads and converts is accurately matched to the particular song on Spotify? Some more obscure songs might not always be the first result.

I tried to do it with the API but Youtube's rate limits meant it was impossible. Tried with HTML scraping and it failed as well. ultimately now I rely on Youtube-DL's search to fetch, its about as accurate as it gets

Also, am I right to assume that I can't download the songs if there's not a YouTube video that matches it?
Yes

What would you recommend for accessing material that is on Spotify but not YouTube?

I don't know, tbh. Spotify's data streams are encrypted and touching them would be against their terms of service

[varietygarden]

[SathyaBhat]

@LightningLucas its SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET, not SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID_SECRET as you seem to have exported

[varietygarden]

Ah, so I have. Sorry for being so stupid. Thanks mate!

[SathyaBhat]

@LightningLucas no worries, its easy to mix it up

[kigazw]

Thanks a lot!
Works actually, but:
Loads not only the playlist, but more albums from the same artist.
Unfortunately all with the same picture and the same title.

Where is my error?

[SathyaBhat]

@kigazw hard to say without any details from your end

[nostrus-dominion]

Is there a file or flag that has the ffmpeg settings? Sometimes when I scrap a playlist I get different bitrates and sample rates. Not a big deal but I would prefer it to be at least uniform. Any idea?

[SathyaBhat]

@ghostmech007 you can use -f for youtube-dl format setting

https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl/blob/master/spotify_dl/spotify_dl.py#L28-L30

For FFMpeg, it is transcoded to the same format https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl/blob/master/spotify_dl/youtube.py#L54-L56

[karitakarmet]

Hey, I'm getting this error while trying to download any songs for the first time
Unable to download API page: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)> (caused by URLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)'))) Failed to download: LA Priest - Oino Lyrics, please ensure YouTubeDL is up-to-date.
Do you have any suggestions how to fix it?

What a cool open source project, thanks for the hard work!

Maybe an issue with my env vars? My youtube key is set as YOUTUBE_DEV_KEY

[SathyaBhat]

This looks like either your system time not set correctly or something in your system is intercepting TLS calls. I don’t use YouTube api anymore

[kpreetsingh]

Can i use this through google colab to get songs downloaded on gdrive ?

[SathyaBhat]

Possibly, try it and let us know :)