Download Spotify Tracks as MP3 Files

Here are instructions for downloading tracks from Spotify as MP3 files. This utilises YouTube Music to download the track by querying the Spotify URL you pass it.

Installation

From your terminal, enter the following commands...

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install python3-pip ffmpeg -y
sudo pip3 install spotdl

Now that's done, you can either download an individual track or even a whole playlist. They both utilise the same syntax which goes as follows...

spotdl *spotify link to track or playlist/album*

It'll then go off and grab the files, then encode them to MP3 using FFMPEG then put them in your current directory.