Spotify-downloader: "Fetching Playlist..." for a while and an error came up

Created on 4 Dec 2020 · 6Comments · Source: spotDL/spotify-downloader

New to the whole scene but gave your script a go and got this error about 20 minutes after just seeing "Fetching Playlist...".

C:\WINDOWS\system32>spotdl https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7KyTn3RzqOlt91LHJXmTBC
Fetching Playlist...
0%| |ETA: ?, ~min/songException in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\mjhen\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\threading.py", line 950, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "c:\users\mjhen\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\threading.py", line 888, in run
self._target(self._args, *self._kwargs)
File "c:\users\mjhen\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\libmultiprocessing\pool.py", line 576, in _handle_results
task = get()
File "c:\users\mjhen\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\libmultiprocessing\connection.py", line 256, in recv
return _ForkingPickler.loads(buf.getbuffer())
TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'pattern'

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I encountered the same error. Here's the steps that worked to resolve it for me

pip3 uninstall spotdl
pip3 install https://codeload.github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/zip/master 
pip3 uninstall pytube 
pip3 install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube

If these don't work, try uninstalling spotdl, and installing it in a virtualenv (which is what I do instead of a global install for python packages):

pip3 uninstall spotdl
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install https://codeload.github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/zip/master 
pip3 uninstall pytube 
pip3 install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube

sjustintaylor on 12 Dec 2020

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I do have the same problem

wynstep on 5 Dec 2020

Me too

owl4ce on 5 Dec 2020

Its currently our most common issue. The fix will take a while. Please be a bit patient.

MikhailZex on 5 Dec 2020

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I encountered the same error. Here's the steps that worked to resolve it for me

pip3 uninstall spotdl
pip3 install https://codeload.github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/zip/master 
pip3 uninstall pytube 
pip3 install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube

If these don't work, try uninstalling spotdl, and installing it in a virtualenv (which is what I do instead of a global install for python packages):

pip3 uninstall spotdl
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install https://codeload.github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/zip/master 
pip3 uninstall pytube 
pip3 install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube

sjustintaylor on 12 Dec 2020

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Actual to avoid the venv business, just install, clear pip cache, reinstall from master.

MikhailZex on 12 Dec 2020

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I encountered the same error. Here's the steps that worked to resolve it for me
pip3 uninstall spotdl
pip3 install https://codeload.github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/zip/master 
pip3 uninstall pytube 
pip3 install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube
If these don't work, try uninstalling spotdl, and installing it in a virtualenv (which is what I do instead of a global install for python packages):
pip3 uninstall spotdl
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install https://codeload.github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/zip/master 
pip3 uninstall pytube 
pip3 install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube

worked for me thanks!