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Downloading albums from Soundcloud with metadata (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to download whole albums from Soundcloud using yt-dlp but they come without the metadata (artist, album, year) even when used with --embed-metadata.

I've tried searching but all the posts I can find talk about Youtube videos' metadata.

Does anyone have any experience with it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Then they are normalizing it by removing that data. You will need to use a script that is designed to capture the file and the meta at the same time. This means you need api or scraping instead of just pulling the file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From what I've gathered so far, it seems that it's up to the artist what tags are included with the track, and most of them don't bother to include any.

So far even the ones that I found that included some metadata are simply not consistent enough and retagging them with Picard seems better.