musidl

musidl is a simple command-line utility written in Bash for downloading music from YouTube with id3 tags (used by media players to display the artist, album, etc.). It is licensed under the GNU GPLv3.

musidl requires youtube-dl to get information about and download the audio from videos, jq to process JSON, and id3v2 to add id3 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]... (-- [youtube-dl 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		The audio format to use (default: mp3)
-a, --artist		The audio format to use (default: mp3)
-A, --album		Set the album title (default: detect from YouTube)
-t, --song		Set the song title (default: detect from YouTube)
-g, --genre		Set the genre (default: none)
-y, --year		Set the year (default: detect from YouTube)
-T, --track		Set the track (default: detect from playlist, otherwise none)
-s, --show		Print information to stdout instead of downloading to file

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