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Cookies Not Working for High-Quality Audio Downloads in Spotdl; PO Tokens Required in YTDLP #2279

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Substancelib opened this issue Jan 18, 2025 · 9 comments · May be fixed by #2285
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Cookies Not Working for High-Quality Audio Downloads in Spotdl; PO Tokens Required in YTDLP #2279

Substancelib opened this issue Jan 18, 2025 · 9 comments · May be fixed by #2285
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Windows

Python Version

3.13 (CPython)

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pip / PyPi

Install version / commit hash

v4.2.11

Expected Behavior vs Actual Behavior

Since yesterday, when I use cookies to download music in high quality, the music still downloads in the same standard quality. I investigated and tried using a command in ytdlp to download audio with cookies, but it also didn't work. Upon further investigation, I found that ytdlp now requires PO tokens to download high-quality audio from YouTube using my premium account cookies. I’m not sure if the issue is specific to my setup, but when I use PO tokens together with cookies in ytdlp, I can download high-quality music without any issues. However, I haven’t found any information on how to use PO tokens with spotdl.

Steps to reproduce - Ensure to include actual links!

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#po-token-guide
This command worked well for me on ytdlp --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=web_music,default;po_token=web_music+TOKENGOESHERE" the only hard part is to get po token.

Traceback

C:\Users\Documents\xxx>spotdl --cookie-file "C:\Users\Documents\xxx" "https://spotifyt.com/playlist/xxxxxx"
Processing query: https://spotifyt.com/playlist/xxxxx
Found 10 songs in Playlist Name (Playlist)
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=1gAd54gVyH4
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=DW0PTHJE0ao
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=yOOwcvl3u9Y
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=AyJM7N39tBU
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=p7pQf0WETEk
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=pb57CTmOFF0
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=_uG2bjb4mLs
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=cAqWW_HBmTM
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=mcE0NO7s7RE
AudioProviderError: YT-DLP download error - https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=LRcfqKqzxL

C:\Users\Documents\xxx>
C:\Users\Documents\xxx>spotdl "https://spotifyt.com/playlist/xxxx"
Processing query: https://spotifyt.com/playlist/xxxxx
Found 10 songs in Playlist Name (Playlist)
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=p7pQf0WETEk
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=DW0PTHJE0ao
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=yOOwcvl3u9Y
Total                                   3/10 complete      ---------------- ------------------------------  36% 0:00:29
Song Name - Track Title            Processing         -----------------------------------------------   0% -:--:--
Song Name - Track Title                Converting         --------------------------- -------------------  59% 0:ToToToToT
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=1gAd54gVyH4
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=LRcfqKqzxL0
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=mcE0NO7s7RE
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=AyJM7N39tBU
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=_uG2bjb4mLs
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=cAqWW_HBmTM
Downloaded "Song Name - Track Title": https://youtubexx.com/watch?v=pb57CTmOFF0

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@Substancelib Substancelib added the Bug Unexpected problem or unintended behavior that needs to be fixed label Jan 18, 2025
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Eurodocsis commented Jan 23, 2025 •
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Not working for me too Bitrate stays on 128kb or lower

@Kyrluckechuck
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Unfortunately running into this issue as well, and the annoying part is there is no indication that it is failing or ability to stop it from downloading a lesser-quality file. Would be nice if when this is resolved to also add a config option to "fail" if premium quality isn't available

@Kyrluckechuck Kyrluckechuck linked a pull request Jan 24, 2025 that will close this issue
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@Silverarmor Silverarmor added the High Priority Indicates an issue that requires immediate attention and should be addressed as soon as possible label Jan 29, 2025
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luizclaudio98 commented Feb 8, 2025 •
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same here. premium cookies, 128 kbps downloads.
using "--format m4a --bitrate disable"

@ghost112015
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this also, it only shows 128 kbps

@temporaryna
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+1
sometimes I got 129 kbps but it seems the same :D

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vemid commented Feb 21, 2025

does enybody figuired out how get working?

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Kyrluckechuck commented Feb 22, 2025 •
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does enybody figuired out how get working?

@vemid If you're using the CLI specifically, it requires a code change (to add extractor_args support), which you can either apply yourself before installing the package with pip, or apply by installing the branch I submitted as a PR in #2285.

If you're using this via code, it will require a bit further tweaking but the branch's changes would be good to base off of

See this comment (I had these reversed in my head due to making the change so long ago): #2279 (comment)

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@Kyrluckechuck
I tried to use your branch with CLI but got error spotdl: error: unrecognized arguments: --extractor-args

could you please write the command example that you are using for this?

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Kyrluckechuck commented Feb 22, 2025 •
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@Kyrluckechuck I tried to use your branch with CLI but got error spotdl: error: unrecognized arguments: --extractor-args

could you please write the command example that you are using for this?

@temporaryna Apologies! In my haste to respond and the fact I made this change so long ago, I forgot that my PR hadn't included the CLI support quite yet since I hadn't needed it (my main usage of this is via the library, rather than the CLI standalone), and it had implemented the library support directly.

If anyone would like to contribute the remaining bit to my PR (assuming it won't be merged any time soon since it's been radio silence), you are more than welcome, otherwise I will try to get around to it in the near future when I've got some free time.

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