Breaking Free: My Journey from Spotify to an MP3 Player
I have been using Spotify since its initial release in India. However, due to Spotify’s latest update, they have restricted some features behind a paywall, so I decided to make a switch.
The thing I mostly like about Spotify is its algorithm. It gives me daily mixes to listen to, and going away from it was a bit sad for me. So, I decided to download the daily mixes and copied them to the player for listening to music. There are many online tools to download a whole playlist but it does not works all the time. So i decided to use spotdl a terminal interface to download the song.
Install spotdl using pip
pip install spotdlDownload a playlist using the follwing command
spotdl [url]
After downloading the music I copy it to my mp3 player.
spotdl downloads the songs from youtube music and embeds the meta data that it gets from the spotify api so you get the album art and other details like name of album and the artist.
