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- How To Download Entire 8tracks Playlist On Computer
- How To Download 8tracks Playlists 2017
- How To Download 8tracks Playlists Mp3
- How To Download Entire 8tracks Playlist 2017
#8tracks-downloader
A bash script to download playlists from 8tracks. It's a very hackish way of doing it, but works for me.
##Usage
##Requirements
Playlist downloader?? Is there any website or safe program that will allow me to download a 8track playlist? The re-tracks.com wensite has been in. Jul 14, 2017 The best way downloader software to download playlist and music from 8tracks; Steps of downloading 8tracks playlist and music; Other features about 8tracks downloader; The best way downloader software to download playlist and music from 8tracks. For saving any playlist or single song from 8tracks, the best way is to record any audio on 8tracks.
- Underscore-CLI for parsing JSON
- Axel for downloading tracks
##Steps
- Go to an 8tracks mix page (like this) in a new incognito window (basically none of the tracks should have been played earlier) and open up Chrome developer tools.
- Copy the url. This is the mix-url in the command above.
- Get the play-token from the console (you may need to enable XHR logging) or the network tab, where it typically appears as
../sets/<play-token>/..
- Execute the above command and tracks from the mix are downloaded in a new folder with the same name as the mix.
This is a simple playlist downloader for 8tracks.com that is based on proper API calls with a valid Dev API Key.
About
How To Download Entire 8tracks Playlist On Computer
8tracks.com is by far the best music site I've ever used! The site UI is brilliant, the people are superb, and the music is pure awesomeness. 8tracks is internet radio, so ideally you're NOT supposed to be able to download songs from the site! Thankfully though, it can be done with a little hackery. ;-)
Requirements
How To Download 8tracks Playlists 2017
- A valid API Key from 8tracks.com. Click here to sign up for one.
- PHP 5.4 running on Mac OS X for a simpler installation.
Or,
- A webserver running locally.
I recommend WAMP for Windows and MAMP for Mac OS X because they are very simple and easy to set up.
How To Download 8tracks Playlists Mp3
Stand-alone Application
Mac OS X only, requires PHP 5.4+ (to upgrade your PHP installation check these recommended packages.)
How To Download Entire 8tracks Playlist 2017
- Download the script and unzipt it.
- Double click the 'Launch.app' icon.
Webserver Installation
- Download the script and unzip it.
- Rename the extracted folder to '8tracks-downloader' and copy it into your web root folder.
- Make sure that the '8tracks-downloader' folder's permissions are set to 0777.
- Go to http://localhost/8tracks-downloader in your web browser.
- Type in the playlist's URL and your API Key (it must be valid), and click 'Analyze'.
- You can choose to download one by one (right-click on the song title and choose 'Save As.') or all (click the button 'Download All').
- Relax and let it do its magic.
- When it has finished it'll say 'Done.' and your songs will be waiting in the 'Downloads' folder inside '8tracks-downloader'. Sweet.
Troubleshooting
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of XXX seconds exceeded
The thing with the script is that it doesn't stop running until the last song has been downloaded. PHP features a maximum execution time parameter, which is useful when you are running a traditional web page (you wouldn't want a single cycled script to take your server down), but in this case that's what is throwing an error.Depending on various factors (such as your download speed, the number of songs in the playlist, etc.) the script can take up to 10 minutes or more to download a single playlist! My recommendation would be to set your execution time to 0, that way PHP interprets it as 'unlimited'.Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init()
You might need to enable/install the cURL library. Try this guide first, it'll solve most problems related to cURL.
Updates
By mundofr:
- Created an AppleScript applet for Mac OS X to launch a self-contained version of the script for easier installation, but it requires PHP 5.4+ to be installed in Mac OS X, which is not yet installed by default on Mountain Lion.
- Reddit user elmes3 solved an issue where the download wouldn't start if the playlist name contained invalid characters for a folder name.
- 8tracks recently changed it's API policies and you are now required to authenticate with a valid API key. Changed all the requests to the new API.
- I also redesigned the script flow quite a bit, a new 'analysis' page shows up with the playlist description and the song list, from there you can choose to download one-by-one or download all.
- The command line functionality has been completely removed.
By navinpai:
- Added a UI (?). All you have to do is input playlist URL in homepage and click download! :) Here's a peek at the simplified UI: http://brizzly.com/pic/4S3U
- 8Tracks used to provide 64K m4a (still does infact), though their primary server now encodes into 48K ..This provides smaller filesize, but less quality. So have added support for 64K encoded downloads.
- Updated UI: http://brizzly.com/pic/4S4Q (Just check HIGH QUALITY to download 64K m4a's)
- Maintaining 64K encoding works out pretty costly for the 8Tracks team ( http://groups.google.com/group/8tracks-public-api/browse_thread/thread/14da42858b928b88# ) so I don't know how long they'll support it for! But while they do, enjoy! :)
Thanks to
- Navinpai (https://github.com/navinpai) for creating the original script.