covertg / m3u-download

A quick-and-dirty bash script for batch downloading music from an M3U playlist.

m3u-download

This will batch download songs from an M3U stream. Tested on Linux and macOS 10.10, but it should work anywhere with with a bash-compatible shell. The only other requirement is a working curl installation!

Know before you go

• This script is intended for personal use only. Use it ethically for content which is yours to download.
• m3u-download currently only works on M3U streams that list songs themselves; it can't handle streams that list other lists. (For example, when testing with GMusicProxy, /get_all_playlists won't play nice because it only contains a list of other lists.)
• Distributed under MIT license. Pull requests welcome!

Usage

$ ./download.sh <path/playlist.m3u> <path/outputdir>

Output:

Making folder <outputdir>.

1/TOTAL		Downloading <Artist> - <Title>
...
TOTAL/TOTAL	Downloading <Artist> - <Title>

All songs downloaded.

Note: if the download seems to fail or end prematurely, try appending --ignore-content-length to the end of m3u-download's cURL argument. See #2.

(Old) Example with GMusicProxy

With gmusicproxy running, find a playlist you wish to download:

$ curl localhost:9999/get_all_playlists
#EXTM3U
...
#EXTINF:-1,Playlist I Want
http://localhost:9999/get_playlist?id=123ab456-1111-2222-3333-7c890d12efgh
...

Download that playlist as an .m3u:

$ curl -o path/playlist-i-want.m3u http://localhost:9999/get_playlist?id=123ab456-1111-2222-3333-7c890d12efgh

Now call in m3u-download:

$ ./download.sh path/playlist-i-want.m3u path/outputdir