Instant Music Downloader
Dev tools
command line downloader
SHOW HN2015
321points
134comments
#46of 2,565 in 2015
Top 2%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 13 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 6 for, 6 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool, useful tool and nice hack
From 3 comments
Wow, what a nice hack! My testing env : Windows 8.1, MSYS2, Python 3. It's working flawlessly even with some obscur foreign/french lyrics/song/group. I'm impressed. :)
0x4a42 on HNThis is super cool. :-) I think it'd be nice to have a SoundHound/Shazam-style audio fingerprint downloader too: then you can either repeat lyrics, or get a quick soundbyte!
scott_karana on HNA nice little tool. I'm a big fan of Youtube-dl as well. I've used it in similar chain-together command line tools to feed songs from Youtube into ffmpeg to slow them down to…
cushychicken on HN
youtube-dl is a great tool
From 2 comments
I have a similar function in my bashrc, which also relies on youtube-dl (which is amazing, btw, it does a LOT more than YouTube – bandcamp, SoundCloud, etc). `play` will…
exogen on HNBased on the comments here, it seems this tool is powered by youtube-dl. youtube-dl is a great tool ( supports multiple websites outside of youtube as well ) The problem is...if…
_Marak_ on HN
Objections
Downloading YouTube videos may be illegal under YouTube terms and copyright law
From 3 comments
I'm surprised to see this on HN. This should be called "Illegally download any song". I think the project is extremely cool and you have props from me - but I hate it when people…
nadams on HNI don't know what country you live in - but in the US it's pretty clear on the court's stance on scraping [1]. I'm not saying I agree with it - but that is the legal precedent. >…
nadams on HNThe Youtube TOS basically says you can only stream content, and pretty much defines streaming as not downloading for offline or later consumption. It's about as illegal as…
bduerst on HN
Audio quality is lower than CD or FLAC quality
From 2 comments
Based on the comments here, it seems this tool is powered by youtube-dl. youtube-dl is a great tool ( supports multiple websites outside of youtube as well ) The problem is...if…
_Marak_ on HNIt's very easy to tell the difference between 192kbps and FLAC if you have a decent subwoofer and the song ever goes below 30hz. On run-of-the-mill speakers and earbuds, probably…
aianus on HN
Installation and permission errors on some systems
From 3 comments
After a bunch of mess getting it installed on Mac OS X, I get it to find a song, which is a bit of trouble in and of itself, and am then stuck with this error: sh: youtube-dl:…
biturd on HNdidn't work for me. I also expected a Tupac song. $ instantmusic Enter songname/ lyrics/ artist.. or whatever > used to be a thug Making a Query Request! Found: The Ambassador…
curiousjorge on HNBTW, on a fresh Win10 install (Py3.5) I had a bit of trouble b/c of the lack of extension. Had to add the .py prefix and it worked then :)
zzleeper on HN
Requests
Pipe search input and skip confirmation
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. I usually had to add a little more context to get the correct result though. It would be nice to see the top ten results, maybe with a relevance score. It…
ahmacleod on HN
Audio fingerprint recognition like Shazam
From 1 comment
This is super cool. :-) I think it'd be nice to have a SoundHound/Shazam-style audio fingerprint downloader too: then you can either repeat lyrics, or get a quick soundbyte!
scott_karana on HN
Show top ten results with relevance score
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. I usually had to add a little more context to get the correct result though. It would be nice to see the top ten results, maybe with a relevance score. It…
ahmacleod on HN
Questions
Why not keep the original AAC stream instead of transcoding to MP3
From 1 comment
Cool! But I'm looking at the video and this thing seems it automatically transcodes the audio stream to MP3. Why not just put the highest quality AAC stream available in an M4A…
unicornporn on HN
How to make it auto-play the downloaded file
From 1 comment
How do you get it to automatically play the file?
mlamat on HN
Alternatives named
Bash play and mp3 functions using youtube-dl
From 1 comment
I have a similar function in my bashrc, which also relies on youtube-dl (which is amazing, btw, it does a LOT more than YouTube – bandcamp, SoundCloud, etc). `play` will…
exogen on HN
Youtune downloader
From 1 comment
It's a CLI version of a tool like Youtune (http://youtune-downloader.com) and probably many others.
IMTDb on HN
playbylyrics.com
From 1 comment
Pretty much the same as playbylyrics.com[1], something I made, except you run it yourself. I really like it! [1] (Note that the site is broken as of a few months.. it never…
lucb1e on HN