Glomatico's Apple Music Downloader

A Python script to download Apple Music songs/music videos/albums/playlists/posts.

Features

• Download songs in AAC/Spatial AAC/Dolby Atmos/ALAC*
• Download music videos up to 4K
• Download synced lyrics
• Choose between FFmpeg and MP4Box for remuxing
• Choose between yt-dlp and N_m3u8DL-RE for downloading
• Highly customizable

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8 or higher
• The cookies file of your Apple Music account (requires an active subscription)
  • You can get your cookies by using one of the following extensions on your browser of choice at the Apple Music website with your account signed in:
    • Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/export-cookies-txt
    • Chromium based browsers: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gdocmgbfkjnnpapoeobnolbbkoibbcif
• FFmpeg on your system PATH
  • Older versions of FFmpeg may not work.
  • Up to date binaries can be obtained from the links below:
    • Windows: https://github.com/AnimMouse/ffmpeg-stable-autobuild/releases
    • Linux: https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
• (Optional) mp4decrypt on your system PATH
  • Required to download music videos and songs in non-legacy formats.
  • Binaries can be obtained from here: https://www.bento4.com/downloads/.

Installation

1. Install the package gamdl using pip

   pip install gamdl
   

2. Place your cookies in the same directory you will run the script from and name it as cookies.txt

Usage

• Download a song

  gamdl "https://music.apple.com/us/album/never-gonna-give-you-up-2022-remaster/1626265761?i=1626265765"
  

• Download an album

  gamdl "https://music.apple.com/us/album/whenever-you-need-somebody-2022-remaster/1626265761"
  

Configuration

You can configure gamdl by using the command line arguments, environment variables, or the config file. The config file is created automatically when you run gamdl for the first time at ~/.gamdl/config.json on Linux and %USERPROFILE%\.gamdl\config.json on Windows. Environment variables are prefixed with GAMDL_ and are the capitalized config file key for their respective option. Config file values and environment variables can be overridden using command line arguments.

Command line argument / Config file key	Description	Default value
-f, --final-path / final_path	Path where the downloaded files will be saved.	./Apple Music
-t, --temp-path / temp_path	Path where the temporary files will be saved.	./temp
-c, --cookies-location / cookies_location	Location of the cookies file.	./cookies.txt
-w, --wvd-location / wvd_location	Location of the .wvd file.	./device.wvd
--ffmpeg-location / ffmpeg_location	Location of the FFmpeg binary.	ffmpeg
--mp4box-location / mp4box_location	Location of the MP4Box binary.	MP4Box
--mp4decrypt-location / mp4decrypt_location	Location of the mp4decrypt binary.	mp4decrypt
--nm3u8dlre-location / nm3u8dlre_location	Location of the N_m3u8DL-RE binary.	N_m3u8DL-RE
--config-location / -	Location of the config file.	<home_folder>/.gamdl/config.json
--template-folder-album / template_folder_album	Template of the album folders as a format string.	{album_artist}/{album}
--template-folder-compilation / template_folder_compilation	Template of the compilation album folders as a format string.	Compilations/{album}
--template-file-single-disc / template_file_single_disc	Template of the track files for single-disc albums as a format string.	{track:02d} {title}
--template-file-multi-disc / template_file_multi_disc	Template of the track files for multi-disc albums as a format string.	{disc}-{track:02d} {title}
--template-folder-music-video / template_folder_music_video	Template of the music video folders as a format string.	{artist}/Unknown Album
--template-file-music-video / template_file_music_video	Template of the music video files as a format string.	{title}
--cover-size / cover_size	Size of the cover.	1200
--template-date / template_date	Template of the tagged date as a string with format codes.	%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ
--cover-format / cover_format	Format of the cover.	jpg
--remux-mode / remux_mode	Remux mode.	ffmpeg
--download-mode / download_mode	Download mode.	ytdlp
-e, --exclude-tags / exclude_tags	List of tags to exclude from file tagging separated by commas.	null
--truncate / truncate	Maximum length of the file/folder names.	40
-l, --log-level / log_level	Log level.	INFO
--prefer-hevc / prefer_hevc	Prefer HEVC over AVC when downloading music videos.	false
--prefer-account-language / prefer_account_language	Prefer the language associated with the account rather than English.	false
--ask-video-format / ask_video_format	Ask for the video format when downloading music videos.	false
--disable-music-video-skip / disable_music_video_skip	Don't skip downloading music videos in albums/playlists.	false
-l, --lrc-only / lrc_only	Download only the synced lyrics.	false
-n, --no-lrc / no_lrc	Don't download the synced lyrics.	false
-s, --save-cover / save_cover	Save cover as a separate file.	false
--songs-heaac / songs_heaac	Download songs in HE-AAC 64kbps.	false
-o, --overwrite / overwrite	Overwrite existing files.	false
--print-exceptions / print_exceptions	Print exceptions.	false
-u, --url-txt / -	Read URLs as location of text files containing URLs.	false
-n, --no-config-file / -	Don't use the config file.	false

Tags variables

The following variables can be used in the template folders/files and/or in the exclude_tags list:

• album
• album_artist
• album_id
• album_sort
• artist
• artist_id
• artist_sort
• comment
• compilation
• composer
• composer_id
• composer_sort
• copyright
• cover
• date
• disc
• disc_total
• gapless
• genre
• genre_id
• lyrics
• media_type
• rating
• storefront
• title
• title_id
• title_sort
• track
• track_total
• xid

Remux mode

The following remux modes are available:

• ffmpeg
  • Can decrypt and remux songs but can't decrypt music videos by itself
  • Decryption may not work on older versions of FFmpeg
• mp4box
  • Requires mp4decrypt
  • Doesn't convert closed captions in music videos that have them
  • Can be obtained from here: https://gpac.wp.imt.fr/downloads

Download mode

The following download modes are available:

• ytdlp
• nm3u8dlre
  • Faster than ytdlp
  • Requires FFmpeg
  • Can be obtained from here: https://github.com/nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-RE/releases

Music videos quality

Music videos will be downloaded in the highest quality available by default. The available qualities are:

• AVC 1080p 10mbps, AAC 256kbps
• AVC 1080p 6.5mbps, AAC 256kbps
• AVC 720p 4mbps, AAC 256kbps
• AVC 576p 2mbps, AAC 256kbps
• AVC 480p 1.5mbps, AAC 256kbps
• AVC 360p 1mbps, AAC 256kbps

By enabling the prefer_hevc option, music videos will be downloaded in the highest HEVC quality available. The available qualities are:

• HEVC 4K 20mbps, AAC 256kbps
• HEVC 4K 12mbps, AAC 256kbps

Enable ask_video_format to select a custom audio/video format.