🎧 Amusing 🎸

A CLI to download music independently and from your exported Apple Music library.

Why should you use Amusing?

• To download your entire Apple Music Library and store it locally in one go
• To search and download individual songs from YouTube
• To keep track of your ever growing music collection

📦 Install it!

Install it as a PyPI package:

pip install amusing-app

You will also need FFmpeg installed, which is required to embed song metadata (title, artist, album, cover art, ...) in the audio file.

✨ Getting set up

There are three things to know before moving on to the next section:

• The CLI takes in a appconfig.yaml file similar to what's indicated in appconfig.example.yaml. You can simply rename it.

  The file looks like this:

  root_download_path: "..."
  db_name: "..."

  The file can be placed in two locations:

  1. ~/Downloads/Amusing/appconfig.yaml: default one. If the file is not found anywhere it will be created here.
  2. ~/.config/amusing/appconfig.yaml: only if the default one does not exist.

• A dedicated sqlite database called db_name will be created in root_download_path/db_name.db to store two tables Song and Album as defined in amusing/db/models.py. All songs downloaded locally will be getting a row in the Song table and a row for their corresponding album in the Album table.

• The songs are downloaded in root_download_path/songs directory.

• That's it. You're done. Let's look at the commands available next.

💬 Available commands

There are currently 7 commands available, excluding the amusing --version.

The first time you run a command (eg. --help), an Amusing directory will be created in the ~/Downloads folder. For eg., on MacOS, it's in /Users/Username/Downloads.

$ amusing --help

 Usage: amusing [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

 CLI to download music independently and from your exported Apple Music library.

╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --version  -v                                                                 │
│ --help               Show this message and exit.                              │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ download           Download the entire DB library.                            │
│ parse              Parse the entire Apple Music library and make/update the   │
│                    DB as needed.                                              │
│ showsimilar        Look up the db and show if similar/exact song(s) are       │
│                    found.                                                     │
│ showsimilaralbum   Look up the db and show albums similar to the album        │
│                    searched.                                                  │
│ showsimilarartist  Look up the db and show songs for similar/exact artist     │
│                    searched.                                                  │
│ song               Search and download the song and add it to the db. Creates │
│                    a new album if not already present.                        │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Parse an exported Library.xml file from your Apple Music account

You can also use a previously parsed Library.csv, that already contains mappings with YouTube video IDs and possible URLs to download custom album artworks.

$ amusing parse --help

 Usage: amusing parse [OPTIONS] LIBRARY_PATH

 Parse the entire Apple Music library and make/update the DB as needed.

╭─ Arguments ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ *    library_path      TEXT  The path to the 'Library.xml' or 'Library.csv'   │
│                              exported from Apple Music.                       │
│                              [default: None]                                  │
│                              [required]                                       │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --help          Show this message and exit.                                   │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

# Example
$ amusing parse 'your/path/to/Library.xml'

Download the entire exported Apple Music library

You can also pass a Library.xml or Library.csv file to parse before downloading the songs.

$ amusing download --help

 Usage: amusing download [OPTIONS] [LIBRARY_PATH]

 Download the entire DB library.
 If passed, parse the library and update the DB before download.

╭─ Arguments ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│   library_path      [LIBRARY_PATH]  The path to the 'Library.xml' or          │
│                                     'Library.csv' exported from Apple Music.  │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --help          Show this message and exit.                                   │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

# Example
$ amusing download 'your/path/to/Library.xml'

# Is equivalent to run
$ amusing parse 'your/path/to/Library.xml'
$ amusing download

Download an individual song

$ amusing song --help

 Usage: amusing song [OPTIONS] NAME ARTIST ALBUM

 Search and download the song and add it to the db. Creates a new album if not
 already present.

╭─ Arguments ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ *    name        TEXT  Name of the song. [default: None] [required]           │
│ *    artist      TEXT  Aritst of the song. [default: None] [required]         │
│ *    album       TEXT  Album the song belongs to. [default: None] [required]  │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --force    --no-force      Overwrite the song if present. [default: no-force] │
│ --help                     Show this message and exit.                        │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

# Example, the search keywords need not be exact of course:
$ amusing song "Run" "One Republic" "Human"

Search for a similar song, album or artist in your DB/downloads

$ amusing showsimilar "Someday"

Song to look up:  someday
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Song                 ┃ Artist        ┃ Album                                ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Someday              │ OneRepublic   │ Human (Deluxe)                       │
│ Someday At Christmas │ Justin Bieber │ Under the Mistletoe (Deluxe Edition) │
└──────────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘


$ amusing showsimilarartist "OneRepublic"

Artist to look up:  OneRepublic
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Song            ┃ Artist      ┃ Album                                             ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Run             │ OneRepublic │ Human (Deluxe)                                    │
│ Someday         │ OneRepublic │ Human (Deluxe)                                    │
│ No Vacancy      │ OneRepublic │ No Vacancy - Single                               │
│ RUNAWAY         │ OneRepublic │ RUNAWAY - Single                                  │
│ Sunshine        │ OneRepublic │ Sunshine - Single                                 │
│ I Ain't Worried │ OneRepublic │ Top Gun: Maverick (Music from the Motion Picture) │
│ West Coast      │ OneRepublic │ West Coast - Single                               │
└─────────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘


$ amusing showsimilaralbum "Human"

Album to look up:  Human
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Album          ┃ Number of songs ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Human (Deluxe) │ 2               │
└────────────────┴─────────────────┘

🛠️ Library customization

The resulting Library.csv file will be automatically updated by Amusing at every DB change.

You can manually modify it to change which YouTube video to download for a specific song. You can also add a custom URL to download a specific album artwork.

Here are some great tools you can use to find album artworks:

• Ben Dodson's iTunes Artwork Finder
• Ben Dodson's Apple Music Artwork Finder

Copy the image link into your CSV file and Amusing will download it and embed it into your song the next time you run amusing download '/path/to/Library.csv'!

📝 TODO

1. Provide an option to choose which searched result is downloaded.
2. Provide a command to show all songs in an album
3. Provide a command to download a song from youtube link
4. Better metadata availability (Musicbrainz, Discog etc)
5. Coverarts (Musicbrainz, somewhere else?)
6. Lyrics!
7. Export playlists from Apple Music
8. Look at which music player to integrate with, make changes to architecture of the library accordingly. The Music player needs to have:
   • Aesthetic UI, intuitive UX similar to Apple Music or Spotify
   • Play count, gapless playback, fade-in-out playback
   • Docker compose support