Music Downloader
Overview
This skill enables downloading high-quality audio from various platforms (YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, etc.) using yt-dlp and spotdl. It provides command templates for single tracks, playlists, albums, and advanced features like metadata embedding, thumbnail extraction, and format conversion.
If the user did not provide a specific link to a song or playlist, you must search the web using tools in your environment to find what the user is looking for.
When using the Web_Search tool, set the Search Type to videos and prefer official YouTube links.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when users request:
- Downloading audio/music from YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, or other platforms
- Extracting audio from videos in MP3, Opus, or other formats
- Downloading entire playlists or albums
- High-quality audio with metadata and album art
- Batch downloading multiple tracks
- Converting video content to audio files
Quick Start
Most Common Use Case - Download MP3 from YouTube:
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download from Spotify:
spotdl --audio-quality 320k --embed-metadata --output "{artist}/{title}.{ext}" "SPOTIFY_TRACK_URL"Note: If you encounter issues, try downloading or updating yt-dlp via pip: pip install --upgrade yt-dlp
General Commands
List Available Formats
yt-dlp -F "URL"Download MP3 at Max Quality
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --postprocessor-args "-b:a 320k" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJki23aeTQ&ab_channel=OnlyRealHipHop49"Basic High-Quality MP3 Download
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download Custom Bitrate
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --postprocessor-args "-b:a 192k" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download and add Metadata Tags
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-metadata -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download Entire Playlist
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(playlist_title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "PLAYLIST_URL"Download Playlist (Specific Range)
yt-dlp --playlist-items 1-5 -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(playlist_title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "PLAYLIST_URL"Download HQ from SoundCloud
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Embed Album Art Automatically
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --audio-quality 0 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download Specific Formats
*Opus instead of MP3*
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format opus -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Skip Already Downloaded Files
yt-dlp --download-archive "downloaded.txt" -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download Multiple Individual Files
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail --write-description --postprocessor-args "-b:a 320k" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJki23aeTQ&ab_channel=OnlyRealHipHop49" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJaew2gMSo&ab_channel=OnlyRealHipHop49" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJkO3RnWUk&ab_channel=OnlyRealHipHop49"Download and Automatically Split by Chapters
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --split-chapters -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Extract Only a Portion of a Video (by Time)
yt-dlp -f bestvideo+bestaudio --external-downloader ffmpeg --external-downloader-args "ffmpeg_i:-ss 00:01:00 -to 00:05:00" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Update Metadata of Existing Files
yt-dlp --download-archive "downloaded.txt" --skip-download --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail --write-description "VIDEO_URL"Auto-Rename Duplicate Files
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --force-overwrites -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download from a URL List File
yt-dlp -a "urls.txt" -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"Download and Limit Download Speed
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --rate-limit 1M -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download from Vimeo
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "Vimeo/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIMEO_VIDEO_URL"Download from Facebook
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "Facebook/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "FACEBOOK_VIDEO_URL"Download from Instagram
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "Instagram/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "INSTAGRAM_VIDEO_URL"Download from Twitter
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "Twitter/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "TWITTER_VIDEO_URL"Download from TikTok
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "TikTok/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "TIKTOK_VIDEO_URL"Download from Reddit
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "Reddit/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "REDDIT_VIDEO_URL"Download from Dailymotion
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "Dailymotion/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "DAILYMOTION_VIDEO_URL"Download YouTube Transcript as Text
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --sub-lang en --skip-download -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"Download YouTube Transcript as Markdown
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --sub-lang en --skip-download --convert-subs srt -o "%(title)s.md" "VIDEO_URL"Download Video Info and Save as JSON
yt-dlp --write-info-json --skip-download -o "%(title)s.json" "VIDEO_URL"List Available Formats without Downloading
yt-dlp -F "VIDEO_URL"Download from YouTube Age-Restricted Content
yt-dlp --username "YOUR_YOUTUBE_EMAIL" --password "YOUR_PASSWORD" -f bestvideo+bestaudio -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "AGE_RESTRICTED_VIDEO_URL"SoundCloud Commands
List Available Formats
yt-dlp -F "URL"Download High-Quality MP3 from SoundCloud
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Download HQ with Metadata from SoundCloud
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-metadata -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Download Entire Playlist from SoundCloud
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "SoundCloud/%(playlist_title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_PLAYLIST_URL"Download Entire Playlist from SoundCloud with Metadata
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-metadata --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail -o "%(playlist_title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_PLAYLIST_URL"Download Multiple Playlists with Metadata
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-metadata --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail -o "SoundCloud/%(playlist_title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "x" "x" "x" "x" "x" "x" "x"Download Playlist with Specific Range
yt-dlp --playlist-items 1-5 -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "SoundCloud/%(playlist_title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_PLAYLIST_URL"Download and Embed Album Art
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Skip Downloading Already Downloaded SoundCloud Files
yt-dlp --download-archive "downloaded_soundcloud.txt" -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Download Multiple Tracks from SoundCloud
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL_1" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL_2" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL_3"Limit Download Speed for SoundCloud
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --rate-limit 1M -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Download from SoundCloud and Split by Chapters (if available)
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --split-chapters -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Download SoundCloud Track and Extract a Specific Portion
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --external-downloader ffmpeg --external-downloader-args "ffmpeg_i:-ss 00:01:00 -to 00:05:00" -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Update Metadata of Existing SoundCloud Downloads
yt-dlp --download-archive "downloaded_soundcloud.txt" --skip-download --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Auto-Rename Duplicate SoundCloud Files
yt-dlp -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --force-overwrites -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "SOUNDCLOUD_TRACK_URL"Download from SoundCloud URL List File
yt-dlp -a "soundcloud_urls.txt" -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "SoundCloud/%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"SpotifyDL Commands
Download Single Song
spotdl --audio-quality 320k --embed-metadata --output "{artist}/{title}.{ext}" "SPOTIFY_TRACK_URL"Download Entire Playlist
spotdl --playlist "SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_URL" --audio-quality 320k --embed-metadata --output "{playlist}/{title}.{ext}"Download Entire Album
spotdl --album "SPOTIFY_ALBUM_URL" --audio-quality 320k --embed-metadata --output "{album}/{title}.{ext}"Download Multiple Albums & Playlists at Once
spotdl --playlist "SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_URL1" "SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_URL2" --audio-quality 320k --embed-metadata --output "{playlist}/{title}.{ext}"
spotdl --album "SPOTIFY_ALBUM_URL1" "SPOTIFY_ALBUM_URL2" --audio-quality 320k --embed-metadata --output "{album}/{title}.{ext}"