itunes-dl

Automatic iTunes album downloader for Windows

Features

• Does not download audio from music videos, which are generally poor quality; instead only uses YouTube Music official artist audios as sources - a significant improvement from generic YouTube to MP3 converters

• Lyrics (from Genius)

• Complete song metadata (artist, song names, genre, etc. from Apple Music)

• Album art (1000x1000 pixels from Apple Music, CURRENTLY ONLY SHOWS IN ITUNES)

• Highest allowable audio quality with VBR (from YouTube Music)

• Correct title casing for all songs, albums, etc.

• Option to download tracks from the deluxe version of an album without changing the album artwork or name

Installation

1. Clone the repository.

2. pip install -r requirements.txt.

3. Ensure the python site-packages folder is on PATH so the youtube-dl module can be called from the Command Prompt.

4. Add the repository folder to PATH.

5. If lyrics are desired, create a file in the directory called genius-key.txt and place a free Genius API key from https://docs.genius.com/ in that file. If lyrics are not desired, modify the itunes_dl.py file and change the download_lyrics variable on line 20 to False.

Usage

• Command Prompt: itunes-dl <Apple Music album link (can be deluxe)> <optional: if first argument is a deluxe album, then Apple Music album link for the non-deluxe version; if not, then type "n" to skip prompt>

• Example for an album with no deluxe version: itunes-dl https://music.apple.com/us/album/folklore/1524801260 n

• Example for an album with a deluxe version: itunes-dl https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1989-deluxe-edition/1445881848 https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1989/1445888258