How to mass download liked music playlist (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As title says. I have a music.youtube liked playlist of over 3k songs and I would like to get them onto my phone. I have yet to find a way to do this just from the liked music playlist. Is it even possible?

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

You can use yt-dlp with the -x flag to extract the audio with the link to the playlist. You can specify the audio format too, it's a powerful tool.

yt-dlp -x link_to_playlist

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

yt-dlp is so good

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I had tried that without the flag and I got an error stating YouTube music isn't supported on my phone.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I did some testing, it looks like the auto generated "Liked Music" playlist doesn't have a proper URL that can point to the music.

A workaround seems to be adding the playlist to the queue, then saving the queue to a new playlist, and using that new playlist URL.

That way you can remove the "music." part from the "music.youtube.com" and use it like a regular YouTube playlist.

If that doesn't work for you it might be a DRM issue with how your phone is attempting to download the data. I used my desktop.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I don't see an option to add entire queue to a play list, only the individual song currently playing.

I appreciate the help though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You on the app?

1000030789

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm on the revanced version of the yt music app.

I had found an app called Vivi that promised auto downloading of songs but it hated my phone and would freeze. I put in an issue via their github.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

try Metrolist

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Then the option should be there. Just go to the "Library" tab and tap on the 3 dots. Then you can go to the queue and save it as a playlist. Alternatively, you can just clear the queue and then play the first song.

Somebody already mentioned it but I recommend Seal

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Okay after messing around a bit I'm seeing that it having an issue adding all 3.1k songs to a play list, so this is not going to be as easy as I hoped for but can be done.

I thank all for the assistance.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Using YTDLnis on android I get this error:

Downloading: Title: URL: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM Type: audio Command: --extractor-args "youtube:player_skip=webpage,configs;visitor_data=;player_client=mweb;lang=en" --newline -N "3" --trim-filenames "184" --no-mtime --sponsorblock-remove "music_offtopic,sponsor" -f "ba/b" -x -P "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.deniscerri.ytdl/files/downloads/2" --ppa "ThumbnailsConvertor:-qmin 1 -q:v 1 -vf crop="'if(gt(ih,iw),iw,ih)':'if(gt(iw,ih),ih,iw)'"" -o "%(uploader).30B - %(title).170B.%(ext)s" --parse-metadata "%(artists,artist,uploader,channel,creator|null)l:^(?P.?)(?:(?= - Topic)|$)" --embed-metadata --parse-metadata "%(playlist_uploader,artist,uploader|)s:^(?P<first_artist>.?)(?:(?=,\s+)|$)" --parse-metadata "%(album,playlist_title,playlist|)s:%(meta_album)s" --parse-metadata "%(album_artist,first_artist|)s:%(album_artist)s" --parse-metadata "description:(?:.+?Released\ on\s*:\s*(?P<dscrptn_year>\d{4}))?" --parse-metadata "%(dscrptn_year,release_year,release_date>%Y,upload_date>%Y)s:(?P<meta_date>\d+)" --embed-thumbnail --convert-thumbnails "jpg" "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM"

WARNING: [youtube:tab] YouTube Music is not directly supported. Redirecting to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM WARNING: [youtube:tab] YouTube said: The playlist does not exist. ERROR: [youtube:tab] LM: YouTube said: The playlist does not exist.

I do know that not all music.youtube likes get transfered to basic YouTube.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It's the playlist link that's the problem. It ends with playlist?list=LM which stands for "Liked Music". yt-dlp doesn't know your account's liked music playlist. It needs a playlist ID like playlist?list=PLO7q4X25LQEEyJAQe5EEwJxUCSKvuKbok

Basically you need the songs to be in a different playlist

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

If you're on PC, you can also grab cookies from a browser to use liked playlists, but I don't know if it'll work for YTM likes, as I don't know if that playlist actually exists on normal YouTube.