Spotify to MP3

A simple command line utility to download MP3 files of Spotify tracks. Note those files are downloaded from Grooveshark, not from Spotify itself.

Grooveshark, the service this app was relying on, has shut down. Don't expect it to work anymore :(

Installation

$ sudo gem install spotify-to-mp3

Probably sudo can be ommited if using rvm or similar.

Make sure you have rubygems installed and configured:

$ sudo apt-get install ruby2.0 ruby2.0-dev
$ echo 'PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.9/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/rubygems1.9.sh >/dev/null

$ sudo gem2.0 install spotify-to-mp3

Create a file (like songs.txt) and copy the Spotify songs URLs to it. Plain song names are also accepted. It will look like this:
```
http://open.spotify.com/track/1JqTcOjOn7gEpeC0JcRVPa
spotify:track:1fE3ddAlmjJ99IIfLgZjTy
The Drums - Money
```
Download songs. They are saved to the current directory. Errors will appear in red (like when a song is not found).
```
$ spotify-to-mp3 songs.txt
```

Also, as it's common in Unix programs, you can pipe in the songs:

$ echo white knuckle ride | spotify-to-mp3

or simply:

$ spotify-to-mp3

and drag the songs from the Spotify app to the terminal.

2015-01-25

A big thanks to @dulakm for such great contributions!

2014-05-05

2012-08-20

2012-01-11

Touch already downloaded songs. This way songs no more in the download list can be spotted easily.

2011-10-03

2011-09-26

Install Ruby.

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle
$ bundle exec spotify-to-mp3
$ bundle exec rspec

Bump version in spotify-to-mp3.gemspec

$ gem build spotify-to-mp3.gemspec
$ gem push spotify-to-mp3-[version].gem

Consider multiple artists songs
Filter Grooveshark results by artist, title and length
Accept tracks from stdin (instead of from a file, to drag songs directly to the app)
Exit with a single Ctrl+C
Cleaner output
Don't pick remixes