Open Source 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.

Download music from Spotify and other music sources.

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.