aMuseMent

A tool to download YouTube Music files and move them to iTunes/Apple Music

Features

📁 Download directly from YouTube Music playlists at the highest quality possible!
📝 Music metadata prepared for you!
🎵 Add to iTunes automatically!

Usage

IMPORTANT! Get ffmpeg for your relevant operating system and add it to your PATH: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
- Note: As of commit b5424d3, ffmpeg has been bundled for MacOS, and in a later commit for more operating systems as well. Regardless, it is recommended you install ffmpeg as a backup.
Download the binary from the Releases tab, right click and run!
Some settings are on the menu on the top right corner. To change all settings, edit the file found when pressing "Open config.json folder". Syntax for config.json can be found at config.md

Usage (command line)

Get ffmpeg, as above
Get Python 3.10 or newer
Clone / download repo to local system. Init venv (if needed)
Download requirements.txt: python3.10 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Run main.py for the command line version or amuse_ui.py for the GUI version

IF THE APP FAILS TO RUN

If you see the message "Apple could not verify ... is free of malware", open System Settings, search for Gatekeeper and click "Open Anyway" as shown below:

FAQ

Q: Why am I stuck on downloading the first song?

A: ffmpeg is not installed! Get it and make sure it's in your PATH.

Q: Why no Windows add-to-iTunes?

A: Add to iTunes on Windows is coming soon! I just need some time to figure out the correct directory for Windows iTunes.

Q: Will this support Spotify?

A: No. Spotify's API is too much of a hassle for me to deal with rn.

Q: What is FAST MODE?

A: 😏

Building the app

If you for some inexplicable reason want to build this into a binary...

Get PyInstaller
Change the binaries section in aMuseMent.spec to point to your specific build of ffmpeg
Run pyinstaller aMuseMent.spec

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