spotifyripper

small ripper script for spotify (rips playlists to mp3 and includes ID3 tags and album covers)

note that stream ripping violates the ToC's of libspotify!

Usage:

usage: jbripper [-h] -u USER -p PASSWORD -U URL [-l [LIBRARY]] [-O OUTPUTDIR]
                [-P] [-V VBR] [-I] [-f | -d]

Rip Spotify songs

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USER, --user USER  spotify user
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        spotify password
  -U URL, --url URL     spotify url
  -l [LIBRARY], --library [LIBRARY]
                        music library path
  -O OUTPUTDIR, --outputdir OUTPUTDIR
                        music output dir (default is current working directory)
  -P, --playback        set if you want to listen to the tracks that are currently ripped (start with "padsp ./jbripper.py ..." if using pulse audio)
  -V VBR, --vbr VBR     Lame VBR quality setting. Equivalent to Lame -V parameter. Default 0
  -I, --ignoreerrors    Ignore encountered errors by skipping to next track in playlist
  -o, --oldtags         set to write ID3v2 tags version 2.3.0 instead of newer version 2.4.0
  -f, --file            Save output mp3 file with the following format: "Artist - Song - [ Album ].mp3" (default)
  -d, --directory       Save output mp3 to a directory with the following format: "Artist/Album/Song.mp3"

Example usage:
        rip a single file: ./jbripper.py -u user -p password -U spotify:track:52xaypL0Kjzk0ngwv3oBPR
        rip entire playlist: ./jbripper.py -u user -p password -U spotify:user:username:playlist:4vkGNcsS8lRXj4q945NIA4
        check if file exists before ripping: ./jbripper.py -u user -p password -U spotify:track:52xaypL0Kjzk0ngwv3oBPR -l ~/Music
        

features:

• real-time VBR ripping from spotify PCM stream
• writes id3 tags (including album cover)
• Check for existing songs

prerequisites:

• Python 2 (if P3 is also install change env to python2 and use pip2)
• libspotify (download at https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/libspotify/)
• pyspotify (sudo pip install -U pyspotify)
• spotify appkey (download at developer.spotify.com, requires Spotify Premium)
• jukebox.py (pyspotify example)
• lame (sudo apt-get install lame)
• eyeD3 (pip install eyeD3)

TODO:

• [ ] detect if other spotify instance is interrupting