spotDL Review: How to Install and Use

If you are searching for Spotify downloader, you can find spotDL in the search results. This is a program that allows you to download Spotify music quickly. But how much do you know about it? Is it the best Spotify downloader? Now read on and learn about this detailed spotDL review. You'll learn about the pros and cons of spotDL, how to install and use it, and the best spotDL alternative.

• Part 1. spotDL Overview: Pros & Cons
• Part 2. How to Install and Use spotDL
• Part 3. Best Alternative to spotDL
• Part 4. spotDL vs Its Alternative

Part 1. spotDL Overview: Pros & Cons

spotDL is a command-line music downloader written in Python that enables users to find and download Spotify music on YouTube. It is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It works fast and saves metadata including album art, lyrics, genre and more. With it, you can download Spotify music to MP3, M4A, or OPUS. The output audio quality is 128kbps for free users and 256kbps in M4A format for YouTube Music premium members.

Pros and Cons of spotDL

Part 2. How to Install and Use spotDL

Many people are confused about the installation and usage of spotDL. So, here, we will introduce you to how to install and use spotDL.

How to Install spotDL

spotDL can be installed via Python or FFmpeg. Here, we'd like to show you how to install spotDL via Python.

Step 1. Install Visual C++ 2019 redistributable.

Step 2. Then install Python. Make sure Python is 3.7 or above.

Step 3. Once installed, make sure you tick the box of 'Add Python to PATH'.

Step 4. Open a terminal and install spotDL by running pip install spotdl.

How to Use spotDL

Step 1. Open the Spotify Web Player and find the music you want to download. Then right-click on the song/album/track and choose 'Share' > 'Copy Link'.

Step 2. Run spotDL and replace url with the Spotify music URL. Then run spotdl [url].

Alternatively, you can search for a song directly on spotDL and then download it. To do it, replace query with the name of the song and then run spotdl [query].

If you don't run any commands, the spotDL Web UI will open by default. You can download Spotify music just by searching for music and clicking the 'download' icon.

Part 3. Best Alternative to spotDL

spotDL is good, but it outputs Spotify music at low sound quality. Also, many users reported spotDL not working properly. Therefore, we would like to show you the best alternative to spotDL - DRmare Spotify Music Downloader. It is designed to download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC.

Better than spotDL, it maintains 100% lossless sound quality at 320kbps. Plus, it downloads music directly from Spotify, so you won't face the problem of not finding the song, and the success rate is 100%. Even better, it works 5 times faster, preserves all metadata, and lets you change output parameters as needed.

Key Features of DRmare Spotify Downloader

• Batch download Spotify music at a 5X speed
• Keep 100% lossless audio quality and full ID3 tags
• 100% success rate, easy to use, support free updates
• Download Spotify to MP3, M4A, AAC, M4B, WAV, FLAC

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How to Use DRmare Spotify Music Downloader

Step 1Add Spotify music to DRmare software

You can click on the 'Download' button above to free install DRmare Spotify Converter on your Windows or Mac computer. Then launch it and you can drag and drop music from the Spotify app to its main screen. Alternatively, you can copy and paste the music link into the address box at the top and click on the '+' icon.

Step 2Change Spotify output parameters

DRmare Spotify Downloader will download Spotify music to MP3 as 320kbps by default. If you want to change the output format, go ahead to click on the 'Menu' icon at the top right and then choose 'Preferences' and 'Convert'. Then you are allowed to change the output format, bit rate, sample rate, etc. Finally, click on 'OK'.

Step 3Download Spotify music

Click on the 'Convert' button to launch the conversion process. Then DRmare Spotify Downloader will immediately download Spotify music at a 5X faster speed. When it is over, click on the 'History' list or 'Output' folder to view and listen to Spotify music whenever you want.

Part 4. Comparison of spotDL and DRmare Spotify Downloader

Obviously, DRmare Spotify Downloader is better than spotDL in terms of output quality, success rate, output format, etc. If you are looking for an excellent Spotify downloader, please choose it. But if you are using a Linux computer, DRmare is not for you.