Ironic Redistribution System

^{_{(Shields: Gotta Catch Em All)}}

A music downloader that understands your metadata needs.

A tool to download your music with metadata. It uses Spotify for finding metadata and Youtube for the actual audio source. You will need to have some Spotify tokens, the instructions to set them up are here.

Works with Python 2 and 3.

Demo and Usages

This is a demo of the CLI displayling its features:

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"

Install & The Dependencies _{^{(my new band name _{^{^_\s}})}}

Really there's only one actual external dependency: ffmpeg. For windows, you'll want to follow this guide. For OSX, you'll want to install it through brew with this command:

$ brew install ffmpeg

For Linux, most package managers have ffmpeg in their default repositories, so it can be installed like so:

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Or whatever your appropriate package manager is.

Other than ffmpeg though, all other dependencies are automatically installed with pip:

$ sudo pip install irs

You will need to have some Spotify tokens, the instructions to set them up are here.

Spotify Tokens

To download metadata through spotify, you'll want to head to their Dev Apps page, here. 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.

Wishlist

Full album downloading
Album art metadata correctly displayed
Spotify playlist downloading
GUI/Console interactive version - in progress
Lyric metadata
99% success rate for automatic song choosing

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