Mixtape

Are you tired of music streaming services? No sufficient wifi at the gym? Need some entertainment in your morning commute? If you answered YES to any of these questions, you should try mixtape. mixtape is a simple command line tool that allows you to create your own playlists directly from youtube. All you need is a text file with youtube urls and a catchy name. It will download the videos as mp3, figure out the songs metadata (to its best ability), add album artwork and organize it nicely in your computer. Take advantage of the enormous amount of content youtube offers, and build your favourite, private, offline treasures. Just like the Good Ol' Days 💽 📼 📀

Install

Make sure you have these software installed before proceeding:

• Nodejs (version 6 or higher)
• npm (comes with node)
• ffmpeg (download from http://ffmpeg.org)

To install, run:

$ npm install -g mixtape-cli

Once installed when you call mixtape from anywhere. There are few option you can pass to it:

--tracks, -T    A text file containing a list of youtube video urls.
--out, -O       Output directory. default is current directory
--help, -H      Print help.
--version, -V   Print the current version

How to use mixtape?

1. Browse youtube and pick the videos/songs you want to save.
2. Copy/Paste the url into a plain text file and call it Oldies.txt. (The album name will be the filename) The file should look like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
https://youtu.be/cYMCLz5PQVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZcqBgCS74

3. Create your mixtape!

$ mixtape --tracks Oldies.txt --out ~/Music
⠦ Creating your mixtape.. Hold tight!
✔ All Done! You can find your mixtape here: /Users/johnny/Music/Oldies

And this is what you get:

$ tree ~/Music
.
├── Oldies
    ├── David Bowie - Space Oddity.mp3
    ├── Lionel Richie - Hello.mp3
    └── Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up.mp3

1 directory, 3 files

Enjoy. 🎧

Use it as a node package

if you would like to use mixtape in your project, it is very easy to do so:

const mixtape = require('mixtape-cli')

const tracks = [
  'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ',
  'https://youtu.be/cYMCLz5PQVw',
  'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZcqBgCS74'
]

const options = {
  name: 'Oldies'
}

mixtape(tracks, options).then((outDir) => {
  console.log("All Done!");
  console.log(`your mixtape is saved in ${outDir}`);)
})

Contribute

Send me a pull request.