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If you accidentally ran this on Linux, while your favorite music streaming app was playing, it might take control of your player and record its output, song-by-song, skipping songs that already exist, and embedding ID3 metadata. That would be really bad. Strongly discouraged.

Why would anyone want to do such a terrible thing? Well, some people like listening to music when they drive, and their car has a USB port and hands-free interface dedicated to playing MP3s off a flash drive, and they prefer to leave their phone in their pocket.

Requirements

Ubuntu packages:

sudo apt install \
  build-essential \
  python3 \
  python3-dev \
  python3-venv \
  portaudio19-dev \
  ffmpeg \
  libavcodec-extra

From your favorite music streaming service:

• A developer account and application. The application will have a client ID and secret.
• A refresh token. Here’s an example for generating one.

Recommendations

• pavucontrol (Ubuntu package) for selecting your monitor channel for input. Or you can try to do it manually. While main.py is running, successful capturing looks like this in pavucontrol:

One-time setup

$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Copy template.env to .env and adjust its values.

Usage example

$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ REFRESH='<Insert refresh token here>'
$ ./main.py $REFRESH ~/Music/

Help

$ ./main.py --help