Open Source Mac Music Downloaders

spotDL is a command-line tool that allows users to download songs and playlists from Spotify by sourcing the audio from YouTube. Built in Python, it automatically matches Spotify tracks with corresponding videos on YouTube and downloads them with embedded metadata. The tool retrieves important information such as album art, song titles, artist names, and lyrics to organize downloaded files. spotDL is designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use through a simple command-line interface. It supports downloading individual songs, albums, or entire playlists by providing Spotify URLs or search queries. By combining Spotify metadata with YouTube audio sources, spotDL provides a convenient way to build a local music library.

Yandex Music Download is a tool designed to download music tracks from the Yandex Music service. It enables users to save their favorite songs locally for offline listening, providing an alternative to streaming.

EeveeSpotifyReborn is an unofficial modification for the Spotify mobile application that alters client-side behavior to unlock premium-like features without requiring a paid subscription. It operates by injecting changes into the Spotify app, making it interpret the user account as having premium access and enabling functionalities that are normally restricted. The project was developed through reverse engineering techniques, including analyzing application behavior and intercepting requests to replicate premium functionality within the client environment. It also extends the base experience by adding features such as alternative lyric providers, enabling more flexible and enhanced lyric display compared to the default implementation. The tool requires users to build or sideload a modified application package, as distribution of prebuilt binaries is restricted due to legal concerns.

This is a mobile music application developed with React Native, created by the author “lyswhut”. It targets Android devices (Android 5 and above) and is designed for listening to and managing music, using Redux for state management and integrating custom music sources. The project supports “data-sync” so that users can deploy a server and keep playlists or libraries in sync across devices. The README clearly states that the UI and default behaviour aren’t especially geared toward new users — you’re encouraged to explore settings and adjust according to your preferences. It is open-source under the Apache-2.0 license, and has accumulated a solid community (14,600+ stars, 1,700+ forks). Because it supports custom sources (including non-official music platforms) the team includes disclaimers around copyright, clarifying that the project does not take responsibility for the legality or correctness of the audio data you play.

Download music from Spotify and other music sources.

muffon is a cross-platform music streaming client for desktops, which helps you listen to, discover, and organize music in an advanced way.

A Node.js tool for searching and downloading music from multiple online sources, including streaming platforms.

Videoder is a tool that allows you to search for any video you want using a personalized search engine that combs through different streaming video services like YouTube, Vimeo, and others, so that you can then download them directly to your Android device.

Tab sync with Spotify and an integrated search page for tabs; easy to configure and with a wide variety of themes and customization options

irs is a command-line application that downloads audio and metadata in order to package an mp3 with both. Extensible, the user can download individual songs, entire albums, or playlists from Spotify. Note that the binaries right now have only been tested on WSL. They should run on most Linux distros, and OS X, but if they don't please make an issue. At it's core irs downloads individual songs. It does this by interfacing with the Spotify API, grabbing metadata, and then searching Youtube for a video containing the song's audio. It will download the video using youtube-dl, extract the audio using ffmpeg, and then pack the audio and metadata together into an MP3. From the core, it has been extended to download the index of albums and playlists through the Spotify API, and then iteratively use the method described for downloading each song.