# Ironic Redistribution System
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(Shields: Gotta Catch Em All)
> A music downloader that understands your metadata needs.
A tool to download your music with metadata. It uses [Spotify](https://www.spotify.com/) for finding metadata and [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/) for the actual audio source. You will need to have some Spotify tokens, the instructions to set them up are [here](https://github.com/kepoorhampond/irs#spotify-tokens).
Works with Python 2 and 3.
## Install and Setup
```
$ sudo pip install irs
$ irs --setup
```
**You will need to have some Spotify tokens, the instructions to set them up are [here](https://github.com/kepoorhampond/irs#spotify-tokens).**
## Demo and Usages
This is a demo of the CLI displayling its features:
[](https://asciinema.org/a/105993?autoplay=1)
The usages can be found with the `-h` or `--help` flag:
```
usage: irs [-h] [-a ARTIST -s SONG] [-A ALBUM [-a ARTIST]]
[-u USERNAME -p PLAYLIST] [-l LOCATION] [-o] [-c]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a ARTIST, --artist ARTIST
Specify artist name. Must be used with -s/--song or
-A/--album
-s SONG, --song SONG Specify song name. Must be used with -a/--artist
-A ALBUM, --album ALBUM
Specify album name
-u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
Specify username. Must be used with -p/--playlist
-p PLAYLIST, --playlist PLAYLIST
Specify playlist name. Must be used with -u/--username
-l LOCATION, --location LOCATION
Specify a directory to place files in.
-o, --organize Organize downloaded files.
-c, --config Display path to config file.
```
So all of these are valid commands:
```
$ irs -a "Brandon Flowers" -s "Lonely Town"
$ irs -u "spotify" -p "Brain Food"
$ irs -A "Suicide Squad: The Album"
```
But these are not:
```
$ irs -s "Bohemian Rhapsody"
$ irs -p "Best Nirvana"
```
## Spotify Tokens
To download metadata through spotify, you'll want to head to their Dev Apps page, [here](https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/). After doing that you'll want to create a new app. Name it whatever you want and then once you've done that, find the `Client ID` and `Client Secret` keys. You'll want to take those keys and paste them into your system's environment variables as `SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID` and `SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET`, correspondingly. Viola! You can now download metadata with IRS!
## Metadata
Currently, the program attaches the following metadata to the downloaded files:
- Title
- Artist
- Album
- Album Art
- Genre
- Track Number
- Disc Number
- Compilation (iTunes only)
## Philosophy
When I made this program I was pretty much broke and my music addiction wasn't really helping that problem. So, I did the obvious thing: make an uber-complicated program to ~~steal~~ download music for me! As for the name, its acronym spells IRS, which I found amusing, seeing as the IRS ~~takes~~ steals money while my program ~~gives~~ reimburses you with music.
The design/style inspiration of pretty much everything goes to [k4m4](https://github.com/k4m4).
## Wishlist
- [x] Full album downloading
- [x] Album art metadata correctly displayed
- [x] Spotify playlist downloading
- [ ] GUI/Console interactive version - *in progress*
- [ ] Lyric metadata
- [ ] 99% success rate for automatic song choosing