Spotify-downloader: Change/Select Downloaded Audio Quality

[MangoTornado]

• Feature Request

Windows seems to link the audio files are 0kbps. And I would like to request the option to be able to select the downloaded audio quality

[Melistraza]

I want to add a bit more details to this request.
Default Spotify quality ~196 kbps. Unfortunately, we can't choose quality with a free account.
But good options will be providing personal credentials with a premium account to get 320kbps !!!!

[linusg]

@Melistraza this tool ist _still_ not downloading any audio data from Spotify, so if you mean a free/premium Spotify account, your comment makes no sense.

[Melistraza]

@linusg oh! I missed this nuance )
So this script downloads songs from youtube using Spotify links.
As I know we can download from youtube any quality that we want. That's why this feature request still actual.

As I understand we need only change this string
https://github.com/ritiek/spotify-downloader/blob/master/spotdl/convert.py#L86

I will test it later

[YRlp98]

@linusg oh! I missed this nuance )
So this script downloads songs from youtube using Spotify links.
As I know we can download from youtube any quality that we want. That's why this feature request still actual.

As I understand we need only change this string
https://github.com/ritiek/spotify-downloader/blob/master/spotdl/convert.py#L86

I will test it later

Hi.
I've tested, but after you change the quality to 320k or other qualities you want, it won't be able to download songs anymore and you're gonna face some errors like this:

mutagen.MutagenError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/yousef/Music/Kitsune - Kyoto.m4a'

[ritiek]

As I know we can download from youtube any quality that we want.

This isn't true. YouTube encodes video and audio in the uploaded media to only a handful flavours. It's not like you could download something like 600p video quality from YouTube. YouTube only encodes videos only to a few resolutions, such as 240p, 320p, 480p, 720p, etc. Similar thing with the audio bitrates.

@Melistraza @YRlp98 Changing that line won't help improve quality. See #52.

[MikhailZex]

Cant really do this cause of YouTube quirks.

I know it's late, just clearing out old issues.