Maritsu
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6 months ago I'm having issues with this too; so far I've come up with maybe dropping the 'Lyrics' search tag, making use of Sponsorblock and additionally searching on YT Music instead?
Closed tposejank closed 3 months ago
Maritsu
commented
6 months ago I'm having issues with this too; so far I've come up with maybe dropping the 'Lyrics' search tag, making use of Sponsorblock and additionally searching on YT Music instead?
tposejank
commented
6 months ago I'm having issues with this too; so far I've come up with maybe dropping the 'Lyrics' search tag, making use of Sponsorblock and additionally searching on YT Music instead?
I also thought about YT Music for this issue, but I scrapped the idea since the YT library may not support it.
Maritsu
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6 months ago It seems like the built-in search function of yt-dlp doesn't support YT Music, but there's a library called ytmusicapi that could be used to get the song's URL (as seen in this SO thread). i'll try forking the project and implementing this
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Problem is very common: not downloading correct tracks. My proposed solution is below: Change the query the youtube.py file does so that:
Describe the solution you'd like Instead of query being: "Artist - Song Lyrics" It can be: "Artist - Song Official Audio", preferably if the Song goes before the artist: "Song - Artist Official Audio". So that YouTube can give as results the artist's official audio (usually the square image or a video with just the audio)
Additional context As an example: Frizk, who made a popular TikTok audio, searching for any of his other songs may result to getting the popular audio as a first result, also being that he does not have many sung releases.
If it is unclear what I am mentioning: here