spotify-ripper: Fail to grab and embed a cover

Here is an output of freshly ripped file:

$ eyeD3 Hot\ Boys/Guerrilla\ Warfare/Hot\ Boys\ -\ You\ Dig.mp3
eyed3.core:WARNING: APIC frame does not contain image data/url
.../aria2/order1/Hot Boys/Guerrilla Warfare/Hot Boys - You Dig.mp3[ 7.70 MB ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------Time: 03:58     MPEG1, Layer III        [ ~271 kb/s @ 44100 Hz - Joint stereo ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------ID3 v2.4:
title: You Dig
artist: Hot Boys
album: Guerrilla Warfare
recording date: 1999
track: 11/17
disc: 1/1
FRONT_COVER Image: [Size: 0 bytes] [Type: image/jpeg]
Description: Front Cover

As can be seen, the inserted coverart is zero bytes long. I wonder why it fails to get and embed the cover. Did anyone got a similar issue?

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@reardenlife jfyi: https://github.com/wolfmanx/spotify-ripper/tree/pr-collect has a --large-album-cover option that works. You need to export the web api credentials at the top of the README though. So, basically applying this and the large album option fixes it…

durandom on Apr 1, 2019

@reardenlife I did some more research.

here is a stale PR that add ripper.web.get_large_coverart which seems to download the cover via http and not via the library. That might still work.

Another approach would be to add some code from https://github.com/ritiek/spotify-downloader - this basically rips songs from youtube, but the metadata is coming from spotify

durandom on Mar 30, 2019

@Pancho111 do you have a floppy drive? This should do: 💾

durandom on Mar 28, 2019

@freuz, Well, as you can see, the script’s input parameters are: token ans track id.

I have a different script to download all the covers for the playlist I ripped. Here:

[root@v48807 aria2]# cat spotify-get-covers.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e
set -o errexit

DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd)"

CID=$(cat "${1}" | jq -r '.CID')
CS=$(cat "${1}" | jq -r '.CS')

auth=$(echo -n "$CID:$CS" | base64 -w 0)

t=$(curl -X "POST" -H "Authorization: Basic $auth" -d grant_type=client_credentials https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token)
token=$(echo "$t" | jq -r '.access_token')

playlisturl="${2}"
user=$(echo $playlisturl | cut -d "/" -f5)
uri=$(echo $playlisturl  | cut -d "/" -f7 | cut -d "?" -f1)

offset=0
tracks=""
while (( $offset < 42000 )); do
  t=$(curl "https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/$user/playlists/$uri/tracks?fields=items(track(uri))&offset=$offset" -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" )
  ctracks="$(echo "$t" | jq -r '.items[] | .track | .uri' )"
  tracks="$tracks$ctracks"
  if [ -z "$ctracks" ]; then
    break
  fi
  offset=$((offset+100))
done

cnt=$(echo "$tracks" | wc -l)
echo "Got $cnt tracks"
echo "$tracks" | xargs -L1 | cut -d ":" -f3 | xargs -L1 bash "$DIR"/spotify-hlp-get-covers.sh "$token"

reardenlife on Feb 27, 2019