Spotify to MP3

A simple command line utility to download MP3 files of Spotify tracks

Installation

Mac OS X (Snow Leopard & Lion)

$ sudo gem install spotify-to-mp3

Probably sudo can be ommited if using rvm or similar.

Linux (Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.10)

Make sure you have rubygems installed and configured:

$ sudo apt-get install rubygems1.9 ruby1.9.1-dev
$ echo 'PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.9/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/rubygems1.9.sh >/dev/null

$ sudo gem install spotify-to-mp3

Windows (not tested)

Install Ruby

gem install spotify-to-mp3

Usage

1. Create a file (like songs.txt) and copy the Spotify songs URLs to it. Plain song names are also accepted. It will look like this:

    http://open.spotify.com/track/1JqTcOjOn7gEpeC0JcRVPa
    spotify:track:1fE3ddAlmjJ99IIfLgZjTy
    The Drums - Money
   

2. Download songs. They are saved to the current directory. Errors will appear in red (like when a song is not found).

   $ spotify-to-mp3 songs.txt

Changelog

2012-08-20

• Set filename artist and title from Grooveshark

2012-01-11

• Touch already downloaded songs. This way songs no more in the download list can be spotted easily.

2011-10-03

• Make it work on ruby 1.8.7 (Snow Leopard)

2011-09-26

• Both Spotify URLs and plain song names are accepted

Testing

$ rspec

TODO

• Consider multiple artists songs
• Filter Grooveshark results by artist, title and length
• Accept tracks from stdin (instead of from a file, to drag songs directly to the app)
• Exit with a single Ctrl+C
• Cleaner output
• Don't pick remixes