Failure to download full songs & crashes about bandcampdownloader

[Otiel]

Yes I believe that is due to the anti-spam possible mechanism that Bandcamp uses. Since this album is quite long (72 tracks), that could be why you've seen the anti-spam activated on your first use of BandcampDownloader. Unfortunately, I have no idea on how to work around that. Did you try with other albums - with a number of tracks more usual (10-20)? Are you seeing errors as well?

From what I can see, @beppe9000 didn't commit any improvement to his repo since he provided a fix. I included that fix in my repo, so there shouldn't be any difference in the two versions - at least on the network part (I made some changes since but they shouldn't impact the behavior you see here). The fact that you seem to have more success with his version is in my opinion, purely coincidental (but please keep using his version if it gives you more luck 😄 )

If Google Drive is setting locks on files when uploading, that can explain why you end up with 30sec songs.

[beppe9000]

why JDownloader and IDM can identify the download link for such a song !?

you should inspect the html code and realize the download links are ther in plain sight

[justinwzig]

Update: @beppe9000's release seems to have more success although it does occasionally hang. I'll keep using that and see if it's more consistent.
It's also worth noting that stopping background network traffic seemed to help - I save my music to a google drive folder that was then uploading them in the background which it didn't seem to like too much.

[beppe9000]

I think it is worth saying that jDownloader does support downloading from Bandcamp, and given its mature infrastructure I am preferring it to BandcampDownloader.

[Otiel]

Thanks for the info.

[DoMation666]

why JDownloader and IDM can identify the download link for such a song !?

[DoMation666]

@beppe9000 so is't possible to try to fix the downloading error by using IDM method !?

[Otiel]

@deadmans96 I'm not sure what you're asking. It may be possible to "fix" this error, but unfortunately I won't have the time to look into that to modify the code of BandcampDownloader. But you're welcome to use IDM or JDownloader if they work better.

[beppe9000]

@deadmans96 Considering what Otiel said before, the fix should be either limiting the track download rate or enforcing an exclusive file lock while MP3s are being downloaded. I switched to JDownloader as I was already using it for other downloads, so I don't plan to fix this, as it may require some time (that I do not have).