Download music from alternate YouTube URL

[rucete]

This new option provides a way to specify an alternate YouTube URL from which to download the music in case the one determined by the program does not fit the quality standards or is mistaken or for any other reason.

While using this tool I found the option useful a number of times. The modifications are quite simple and I hope you find them useful too.

[SathyaBhat]

Hi @rucete - thanks for your contribution. If you have an alternative YouTube URL doesn't it make sense to use YouTube-DL (or yt-dlp directly), instead of Spotify-dl? :)

[rucete]

@SathyaBhat - The idea behind it was the following: when trying to download a whole spotify playlist (corresponding to an album, for instance) the program did not choose the right videos for some of the songs (videos with pauses or weird beginnings etc) but I still wanted to download those songs and I wanted any music player app to interpret the whole playlist as a unique album with the same title, artist and cover and keeping the order of the songs. I like my music well structured.

I found spotify-dl a very useful tool for getting metadata and music together and I encountered this problem a couple of times. Downloading the problematic songs from other sources resulted in the music apps not recognizing them as a whole album but as separated songs which makes it very inconvenient if you have a very rigorous digital music collection as I do. Getting all the metadata from spotify (cover included), which I believe the tools you mention are not able to do, solved the issue.