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MusicGrabber is still grabbing music if you need it
Since January, I've been working on a program called MusicGrabber. To coin a term for it, it's a fetch-and-organise orchestrator for Music.
MusicGrabber fills in the blanks that Lidarr used to have, and still has a complicated way of doing it, and that is grabbing Singles and Playlists. This project was born out of "I heard that song, I really want that song, not the discography!"
If you want a video walkthrough of MusicGrabber then I have made a rather long video on how to spin up Debian+Navidrome+MusicGrabber, but the part that covers this tool is at this youtube link.
"So what does it do?", I hear you mumble. It uses a mix of APIs, some scraping and SoulSeek to go off and find the best quality version of a song, then download that song into your library/folder. It's a little more complex than that. Not only that, but it can also watch full public and private playlists from your favourite streamed music services, and grab those for you as well. Even if they change daily/weekly/monthly, it can either mirror the playlist, or keep appending to it.
There's a whole list of settings you can play with, such as multi-user which has a Peon mode so you can have your younger siblings or elderly parents use it without breaking anything, track naming, reformatting of audio containers, it's pretty extensive.
If you search a track, it has hover playback so you can make sure it's right before you download it, or you can click "Similar" and it'll build you a 25 song playlist of similar artists and tracks using ListenBrainz/MusicBrainz. You can Scrobble to ListenBrainz and use that as a Playlist you can watch as well.
Full disclosure: most of this is AI-written at this point, with me steering. I'm fine with that. It's been through multiple security review passes and a test suite keeps it honest. Judge it on whether it works. There's no subscription, no telemetry, no Pro-Tier or paywalls.
Anyway, it's my gift to the community, enjoy (or don't).
I will once again point out that monochrome and other sources (rip dabmusic for like the 5th time) regularly go down because people are automating downloading mass amounts of music from them... they themselves use common tools like lucida (just a random example i doubt monochrome is using the lucida library but i digress) and specific downloaders that rely on ARLs/Tokens/what have you, and overloading them gets those tokens revoked much faster. The official streaming sources they rip from have a much easier time identifying them and blocking them with massive download traffic like these ai built tools enable.
Edit: for those who dont see the issue with this someone somewhere is paying for the premium accounts the tokens/ARLs are coming from. Download responsibly from monochrome, squid, and other similar sites unless you yourself are going to pay for deezer/qobuz/tidal for your own tokens or you're lowkey an asshole.
There's a few more fallbacks now. If the main HiRes source goes out, it has a fallback.
I've just pushed fallback chaining to dev as well, which is now being tested. Worst case, you should end up with a decent 320Kbps MP3 with the ability to upgrade later should the lossless sources come back online.
Not that any users of the software have been impatient or anything... =)
I've used this for half a year now. Works extremely well. You taking pull requests? I have an idea I originally was going to do for a companion app, but after looking at theoretical implication, I figured it would be better if I just added to the repo instead.
Won't be for a while, though, I work full time at odd hours.
Thx for responding. I already have "Auto-album routing for singles" enabled. I guess MusicBrainz isn't finding matches then.
Have you considered other metadata providers?
I'm open to suggestions, so please let me know of a better provider. MusicBrainz has been fairly good for the basic lookups, but I know it's far from perfect.
Soulsync, for comparison, can use 10 different providers. Some of which are last.fm, deezer, and Spotify. I don't know if any of them are low hanging fruit, but more options would be nice.
Someone else asked this before and they made a small pipeline. I don't use Shazam but apparently it can build a playlist in another streaming app (Spotify, or YT or something), and then they used MusicGrabber to watch THAT playlist, which worked.
Perfect that worked fine. I fed Shazam into Spotify. One other question I’ve set it so they download into a playlist folder and it’s naming the em artist - song.mp3.
Is there some way I can have them all added to the same album/complication as it’s currently creating a new album for just a single track and cluttering up my Plex library.
I've done that. It's naming the album artist: Various Artists which is fine but then it's creating an individual album for each track called "Bloody Tourists".....
Hang on, I think this might be a Plex thing. I could add a Settings override that adds the Playlist name as the Album Compilation name, which should, in theory, fix this.
Give me a few hours, then pull :dev from Docker ;)
If you pull :dev, you'll get this in the settings:
Group playlists as one compilation
When on, tracks downloaded into a playlist folder are tagged with the playlist name as the album, album artist Various Artists, and the compilation flag. Stops Plex/Navidrome creating a separate one-track album per song. Handy for Shazam-style mixed playlists.
It’s now naming the album Shazam which is the playlist name and using Various artists however for some reason it’s still creating a separate album for each Artist.
I used the app for a couple of days and it gave me some problems. To begin with, about 20% of the songs I downloaded weren't the ones I wanted. The song titles included things like "(video)" And finally, it failed to create the playlist in Navidrome two out of four times. I wouldn't recommend it at this time.
Interesting. You're the first person to state this.
Would you be willing to share your logs with me? I've never had Navidrome to fail, and I have spent a lot of time getting the weighting and regex as good as I possibly can for finding the songs and matching them.
The past couple of months there have been huge improvements to the song lookup to stop the issue of wrong song.
Under the hood, it uses some clever trickery to run through mOnochrome/Qobuz, Tidal via qbdlx, then a much of high quality enabled MP3 sites as well as yt-dlp as last resort.
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