spotify-recorder

• This tool allows for recording currently played music on the Spotify desktop or web client in real time
• The generated files are tagged with ID3-tags and contain album artwork as seen in Spotify
• The information about currently played music is gathered by what is broadcasted on the D-Bus

Getting started

Installation

• Use the following commands to install spotify-rec for the current user

  pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user
  python3 setup.py install --user

• You can repeat this also for updating the repo with git pull

Usage

• After the installation is finished, the command spotify-rec should be available at your terminal.
• After starting the Spotify desktop or web client, run spotify-rec with your desired output location
• Then just start playing the songs to be recorded, everything else is done automatically
• Use spotify-rec -h to get more information about the interface

Example

The output of an example session can be seen below:

$ spotify-rec ./rec
Watchdog is monitoring 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.firefox.instance1680'
New track 'Soopertrack' is playing
Start recording 'Soopertrack'
Cached album cover '/tmp/spotify-rec_album_cover_676ee20be59b46918cc091ceeb025843.png'
New track 'Schmedding' is playing
Start recording 'Schmedding'
Cached album cover '/tmp/spotify-rec_album_cover_9e6c322441b14a18b3a0428d8edd3820.png'
Successfully exported './rec/Soopertrack - Soopertrack.mp3'
^CSuccessfully exported './rec/Schmedding 8000 - Schmedding.mp3'

License

This project is licensed under the GPL - see the LICENSE file for details