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musidl

musidl is a simple command-line utility written in Bash for downloading music from YouTube with ID3v2 tags (used by media players to display the artist, album, etc.). It is licensed under the GNU GPLv3.

musidl requires yt-dlp to get information about and download the audio from videos, jq to process JSON, and eyeD3 to add ID3v2 tags.

Installation

To install, git clone this repository, cd into it, and run

sudo ln -s $PWD/musidl /usr/local/bin/musidl

Usage

Help information is also available by running musidl --help

Usage: musidl [options]... [url]... (-- [yt-dlp options])

Options:

Flag Argument Description
-h, --help Show help information and exit
-v, --version Show the version and exit
-q, --quiet Only print errors
-f, --format fmt The audio format to use (default: mp3)
-a, --artist name The audio format to use (default: mp3)
-A, --album name Set the album title (default: detect from YouTube)
-t, --song name Set the song title (default: detect from YouTube)
-g, --genre name Set the genre (default: none)
-y, --year year Set the year (default: detect from YouTube)
-T, --track track Set the track (default: detect from playlist, otherwise none)
-s, --show Print information to stdout instead of downloading to file
-o, --output Set the template used for filenames. See the yt-dlp documentation for more info
--color when Enable or disable colored output. <when> must be always, auto (default), or never

Any arguments after '--' will be sent to yt-dlp directly. These are not officially supported and some may cause problems.