Download Songs From Youtube
Download songs from Youtube using Linux, Windows, or Mac.
Use at your own risk.
Tool: Youtube-dl doc here
Follow the download instructions for Linux, Windows, or Mac.
To update use:
$ sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
Find the Youtube link to download. Say the link is awesome-link
. Then download:
$ youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --no-cache-dir "awesome-link"
If you want to download a playlist. Make a directory and download the files. Let’s say the playlist is awesome-playlist
:
$ mkdir playlist
youtube-dl -i -o '%(playlist_index)s.%(ext)s' -x
--audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --no-cache-dir "awesome-playlist"
The files will download like this:
01.mp3 03.mp3 05.mp3
02.mp3 04.mp3 06.mp3
If you want to merge the files into one big file, then correct the metadata:
$ cat *.mp3 > big.mp3
$ ffmpeg -i big.mp3 big_fixed.mp3