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Generate an M3U playlist from the downloaded files #279
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Hi @badrihippo I didn't think many people would be using m3u playlists to this date. I can certainly see the appeal. a PR to include this feature is welcome. https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl/blob/master/spotify_dl/spotify_dl.py Is the main entry point of the script and the songs dictionary has details fetched from Spotify API. Hope this is good enough to get you started https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl/blob/master/spotify_dl/spotify_dl.py#L94 |
Oops, sorry, I somehow missed this notification till now! Thanks for the info @SathyaBhat, I'll take a look when I have the time and send in a PR 🙂 |
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My original problem was that I wanted my downloaded files to be played in the same order as the original playlist. As I was opening this issue, I discovered the
-k
option which does just that: prepending a number to the files so they play in order!That said, it would still be handy to have an M3U playlist file which plays all the songs in order even if they aren't numbered using
-k
. One reason is simply that the numbers feel a bit messy, but also, it'll be easier to have one song in muliple playlists: imagine having all the songs together in one folder, and then.m3u
files to decide which sequence you'd like.Describe the solution you'd like
I'm thinking something like a
--generate-playlist
option which creates the.m3u
file. Since spotify-dl is already generating adownloaded-songs.txt
, I'm guessing it would be easy to implement another dump, but with the final filenames instead of the original YouTube IDs? I don't mind giving it a shot if you show me where 🙂Describe alternatives you've considered
I can actually implement this manually with a few extra steps. Suppose I want one playlist with all the files but without the numbers at the beginning of the filename, I could:
spotify-dl
with the-k
optionEither way I'd need to do additional work to have my music collection just the way I want it, which is out of scope for a project like spotify-dl! But still, if this is easy to implement it'd be a handy feature to have 💭
Additional context
I think this would be especially useful when combined with some of the other feature requests like #177. With those two, we can actually choose to download all songs to one big folder instead of segregating them by playlist, and still have individual
.m3u
files for each. (Of course, people might want more subtleties like organising the folders by artist or album instead of by playlist, but that's probably something spotify-dl can't really help with at this point)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: