trimill / musidl

Download music from YouTube using youtube-dl and add id3v2 metadata automatically

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.