Usage

• General usage
  • CLI
  • WebUI
• Configuring SomeDL
  • Configuration file
  • Configuration from the WebUI
• How To
  • How to get the most accurate metadata?
  • How can I download an entire album with just a search query?
  • How can I download all songs from an artist?
  • How can I change configurations?
  • How do I download age-restricted songs?
  • How can I exclude the cover art or change the cover art resolution?
  • How can I slow the downloads down to prevent YouTube IP blocking?
  • How can I download only a part of a playlist/album?
  • How do I use sync files?
  • How can I avoid redownloading files when removing them from the download folder?
  • How can I change the output template for already downloaded files?
  • How can I add metadata to already downloaded files?
  • How can I update only specific metadata for my already downloaded songs?
• FAQ
  • How can I give feedback or make feature requests?
  • Why should I use SomeDL over yt-dlp?
  • Why is the wrong version of the song downloaded?
  • Why does downloading pause at “Fetching lyrics from lrclib” for so long?
  • Why is the wrong genre / no genre set?
  • What is the “Download Report …. .html” file?
  • How long does a song download take?
  • What does this error message / warning mean?
  • YT-DLP specific warnings: