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Need help downloading spotify playlists efficiently using SpotDL

[SOLVED] Solution: https://lemmy.ml/comment/4317564


I am doing all of this using ChatGPT, I know enough bash to understand the script partially, but not enough to write the script myself.

I recently posted bash script(click) to download songs on spotify using Spotdl Updated Post

This is all good, but I am not trying to download whole playlists and I want to make sure to

  1. Not download any songs multiple times by comparing the files you are trying to download with the songs you have downloaded already.
  2. Add the songs' URL to the Archieve_file so it doesn't download it again. i.e., compare and if present, exit loop, if not present in file, download and add link to the file.

This was easier when I was dealing with only song links and not playlist links. But now, playlists complicates the equation, but if I can achieve this, I can basically add this script to `c