Soundcloud Music Downloader

Status of the project Copy Chapter

As of version 3, this script is a wrapper around yt-dlp with some defaults/patches for backwards compatibility.
Development is not active and new features will likely not be merged, especially if they can be covered with the
use of --yt-dlp-args. Bug reports/fixes are welcome.

Description Copy Chapter

This script is able to download music from SoundCloud and set id3tag to the downloaded music.
Compatible with Windows, OS X, Linux.

System requirements Copy Chapter

• python3
• ffmpeg

Installation Instructions Copy Chapter

https://github.com/flyingrub/scdl/wiki/Installation-Instruction

Configuration Copy Chapter

There is a configuration file left in ~/.config/scdl/scdl.cfg

Examples: Copy Chapter

# Download track & repost of the user QUANTA
scdl -l https://soundcloud.com/quanta-uk -a

# Download likes of the user Blastoyz
scdl -l https://soundcloud.com/kobiblastoyz -f

# Download one track
scdl -l https://soundcloud.com/jumpstreetpsy/low-extender

# Download one playlist
scdl -l https://soundcloud.com/pandadub/sets/the-lost-ship

# Download only new tracks from a playlist
scdl -l https://soundcloud.com/pandadub/sets/the-lost-ship --download-archive archive.txt -c

# Sync playlist
scdl -l https://soundcloud.com/pandadub/sets/the-lost-ship --sync archive.txt

# Download your likes (with authentification token)
scdl me -f

Options: Copy Chapter

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Features Copy Chapter

• Automatically detect the type of link provided
• Download all songs from a user
• Download all songs and reposts from a user
• Download all songs from one playlist
• Download all songs from all playlists from a user
• Download all songs from a user's favorites
• Download only new tracks from a list (playlist, favorites, etc.)
• Sync Playlist
• Set the tags with mutagen (Title / Artist / Album / Artwork)
• Create playlist files when downloading a playlist