more refactoring and made source file stable - WIP albums stored in source.txt not in repo

source.json

@@ -133,43 +133,43 @@
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE" },
 			{ "track": 3,
 				"title": "Killer Queen",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBtPf7FOoM" },
 			{ "track": 4,
 				"title": "Fat Bottomed Girls",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0" },
 			{ "track": 5,
 				"title": "Bicycle Race",
-				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GugsCdLHm-Q" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt0V0_1MS0Q" },
 			{ "track": 6,
 				"title": "You're My Best Friend",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZpZQG2z10" },
 			{ "track": 7,
 				"title": "Don't Stop Me Now",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM" },
 			{ "track": 8,
 				"title": "Save Me",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3izcZd9zU" },
 			{ "track": 9,
 				"title": "Crazy Little Thing Called Love",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO6D_BAuYCI" },
 			{ "track": 10,
 				"title": "Somebody to Love",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kijpcUv-b8M" },
 			{ "track": 11,
 				"title": "Now I'm Here",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH9mdnogLKk" },
 			{ "track": 12,
 				"title": "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy",
-				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3LAgGBxqU" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAutGC_uX-k" },
 			{ "track": 13,
 				"title": "Play the Game",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_5O-nUiZ_0" },
 			{ "track": 14,
 				"title": "Flash",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfmrHTdXgK4" },
 			{ "track": 15,
 				"title": "Seven Seas of Rhye",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4Odk-v3oU" },
 			{ "track": 16,
 				"title": "We Will Rock You",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk" },
@@ -186,34 +186,34 @@
 		"tracks": [
 			{ "track": 1,
 				"title": "A Kind of Magic",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p_1QSUsbsM" },
 			{ "track": 2,
 				"title": "Under Pressure",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I" },
 			{ "track": 3,
 				"title": "Radio Ga Ga",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdwsXLmrHE" },
 			{ "track": 4,
 				"title": "I Want It All",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE" },
 			{ "track": 5,
 				"title": "I Want to Break Free",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUOtCLOXgm8" },
 			{ "track": 6,
 				"title": "Innuendo",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2N0TkfrQhY" },
 			{ "track": 7,
 				"title": "It's a Hard Life",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHP-qgzUVLM" },
 			{ "track": 8,
 				"title": "Breakthru",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEjU9KVABao" },
 			{ "track": 9,
 				"title": "Who Wants to Live Forever",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE" },
 			{ "track": 10,
 				"title": "Headlong",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyaAPsT1LU" },
 			{ "track": 11,
 				"title": "The Miracle",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DaY8-Mui0I" },
@@ -222,78 +222,19 @@
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6hY_50Dh0" },
 			{ "track": 13,
 				"title": "The Invisible Man",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKdxd718WXg" },
 			{ "track": 14,
 				"title": "Hammer to Fall",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU5LMG3WFBw" },
 			{ "track": 15,
 				"title": "Friends Will Be Friends",
-				"url": "" },
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIlz08fZos" },
 			{ "track": 16,
 				"title": "The Show Must Go On",
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4" },
 			{ "track": 17,
 				"title": "One Vision",
-				"url": "" }
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_1IMZmJe-U" }
-		]
-	},
-	{
-		"artist": "Queen",
-		"album": "Greatest Hits III",
-		"year": "1999",
-		"cover_img_url": "https://image-cdn-ak.spotifycdn.com/image/ab67616d00001e024f27ae739d2040962d8b4c4f",
-		"tracks": [
-			{ "track": 1,
-				"title": "The Show Must Go On (Live featuring Elton John)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 2,
-				"title": "Under Pressure (Rah Mix with David Bowie)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 3,
-				"title": "Barcelona (Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé)",
-				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fiOJDXA-E" },
-			{ "track": 4,
-				"title": "Too Much Love Will Kill You",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 5,
-				"title": "Somebody to Love (Live featuring George Michael)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 6,
-				"title": "You Don't Fool Me",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 7,
-				"title": "Heaven for Everyone",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 8,
-				"title": "Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 9,
-				"title": "Driven by You (Brian May)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 10,
-				"title": "Living on My Own (Freddie Mercury)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 11,
-				"title": "Let Me Live",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 12,
-				"title": "The Great Pretender (Freddie Mercury)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 13,
-				"title": "Princes of the Universe",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 14,
-				"title": "Another One Bites the Dust (featuring Wyclef Jean)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 15,
-				"title": "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 16,
-				"title": "These Are the Days of Our Lives",
-				"url": "" },
-			{ "track": 17,
-				"title": "Thank God It's Christmas",
-				"url": "" }
 		]
 	},
 	{
@@ -387,5 +328,49 @@
 				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noWUQci7BsU" }
 			
 		]
+	},
+	{
+		"artist": "Ashley Parker Angel",
+		"album": "Soundtrack To Your Life",
+		"year": "2006",
+		"cover_img_url": "https://image-cdn-ak.spotifycdn.com/image/ab67616d00001e02cf144905cb38295a2e14a4d8",
+		"tracks": [
+			{ "track": 1,
+				"title": "Let U Go",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeR5zqbWYH8&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=2" },
+			{ "track": 2,
+				"title": "I'm Better",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hClsmvAE5qA&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=3" },
+			{ "track": 3,
+				"title": "Soundtrack to Your Life",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhgkf8jqWM&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=4" },
+			{ "track": 4,
+				"title": "Feel So Alive",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Fm04G7WVQ&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=5" },
+			{ "track": 5,
+				"title": "Crazy Beautiful",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wYZQUlThbo&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=6" },
+			{ "track": 6,
+				"title": "Who Cares?",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXPOwt7rExk&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=7" },
+			{ "track": 7,
+				"title": "Shades of Blue",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xWbi_DFb7I&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=9" },
+			{ "track": 8,
+				"title": "Beautiful Lie",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlhXWDaiLU&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=9" },
+			{ "track": 9,
+				"title": "Perfect Now",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVfieLxmjU&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=10" },
+			{ "track": 10,
+				"title": "Where Did You Go?",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Me7K1w4w0&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=11" },
+			{ "track": 11,
+				"title": "Along the Way",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Eqdl0PXxE&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=12" },
+			{ "track": 12,
+				"title": "Apology",
+				"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdboQaj3k-E&list=OLAK5uy_nACGMEPpZ5SqH8yuOCSnBU6DYrCIKzQGQ&index=13" }
+		]
 	}
 ]

ytaml.py

@@ -4,51 +4,15 @@ import json
 import yt_dlp
 
 
-def download_playlist_for_cd(playlist_url: str, output_folder: str = "cd_audio"):
+g_OUTPUT_FOLDER = "cd_audio"
-    """Downloads YouTube audio directly into 44.1kHz 16-bit WAV files
-
-    ideal for burning directly to Audio CDs without secondary re-encoding loss.
-    """
-    if not os.path.exists(output_folder):
-        os.makedirs(output_folder)
-
-    ydl_opts = {
-        # Grab best audio stream available
-        "format": "bestaudio/best",
-        # Prefix with track index (01, 02...) so CD track order matches playlist order
-        "outtmpl": os.path.join(output_folder, "%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"),
-        "postprocessors": [
-            {
-                "key": "FFmpegExtractAudio",
-                "preferredcodec": "wav",  # Lossless format native to CD Burning
-            }
-        ],
-        # Enforce Red Book CD Standard audio resampling (44.1 kHz)
-        "postprocessor_args": [
-            "-ar", "44100",  # Set sample rate to 44.1 kHz (CD Standard)
-            "-ac", "2",      # Force 2 channels (Stereo)
-        ],
-        "ignoreerrors": True,
-    }
-
-    print(f"Downloading audio optimized for CD burning: {playlist_url}")
-    with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
-        ydl.download([playlist_url])
-
-    print("\nDownload complete! Import these .wav files directly into your CD burner.")
 
 
 
-def download_single_video(url, song_num, artist, title):
+def generate_ytdl_opts(outtmpl: str, metadata_artist: str = "", metadata_title: str = ""):
-    output_folder = "cd_audio"
+	return {
-
-    if not os.path.exists(output_folder):
-        os.makedirs(output_folder)
-
-    ytdl_opts = {
 		"format": "bestaudio/best",
 		"noplaylist": True,
-        "outtmpl": os.path.join(output_folder, f"{song_num} - {artist} - {title}.%(ext)s"),
+		"outtmpl": outtmpl,
 		"postprocessors": [
 			{
 				"key": "FFmpegExtractAudio",
@@ -56,18 +20,41 @@ def download_single_video(url, song_num, artist, title):
 			}
 		],
 		"postprocessor_args": [
-            "-ar", "44100",  # Set sample rate to 44.1 kHz (CD Standard)
+			"-ar", "44100",
-            "-ac", "2",      # Force 2 channels (Stereo)
+			"-ac", "2",
-            "-metadata", f"artist={artist}",
+			"-metadata", f"artist={metadata_artist}",
-            "-metadata", f"title={title}",
+			"-metadata", f"title={metadata_title}",
 		],
 		"ignoreerrors": True,
 	}
 
+
+
+def download_playlist_for_cd(playlist_url: str):
+	ytdl_opts = generate_ytdl_opts(
+		os.path.join(g_OUTPUT_FOLDER, "%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s")
+	)
+
+	print(f"Downloading audio optimized for CD burning: {playlist_url}")
+	with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ytdl_opts) as ytdl:
+		ytdl.download([playlist_url])
+
+	print("\nDownload complete! Import these .wav files directly into your CD burner.")
+
+
+
+def download_single_video(url, song_num, artist, title):
+
+	ytdl_opts = generate_ytdl_opts(
+		os.path.join(g_OUTPUT_FOLDER, f"{song_num} - {artist} - {title}.%(ext)s"),
+		artist, title
+	)
+
 	with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ytdl_opts) as ytdl:
 		ytdl.download([url])
 
 
+
 def parse_file(filename):
 
 	class Track:
@@ -112,24 +99,91 @@ def parse_file(filename):
 
 
 
+def print_help():
+	print("-h				print help and exit")
+	print("-f <filename>	select a file (required)")
+	print("-a				download all")
+	print("-d <album>		download a specific album")
+
+
+def parse_args(argv):
+
+	class Ret:
+		file = None
+		downloads = None
+	ret = Ret()
+
+	cache_arg_count = len(argv)
+	arg_idx = 1
+
+	while arg_idx < cache_arg_count:
+
+		if argv[arg_idx] == "-h":
+			print_help()
+			exit(1)
+
+		elif argv[arg_idx] == "-f":
+			if arg_idx + 1 >= cache_arg_count:
+				raise ValueError("-f <filename> - is missing the filename")
+
+			ret.file = argv[arg_idx + 1]
+
+			arg_idx += 2
+			continue
+
+		elif argv[arg_idx] == "-a":
+
+			if ret.downloads != None:
+				raise ValueError("Cannot use -a twice, or in combination with -d")
+
+			ret.downloads = ""
+
+			arg_idx += 1
+			continue
+
+		elif argv[arg_idx] == "-d":
+
+			if ret.downloads != None:
+				raise ValueError("Cannot use -d twice, or in combination with -a")
+
+			if arg_idx + 1 >= cache_arg_count:
+				raise ValueError("-d <album> - is missing the album name")
+
+			ret.downloads = argv[arg_idx + 1]
+
+			arg_idx += 2
+			continue
+
+		else:
+			print_help()
+			exit(2)
+
+	return ret
+
+
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
 
-    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+	config = parse_args(sys.argv)
-        url = input("Enter YouTube playlist URL: ").strip()
+
-        if url:
+	if not os.path.exists(g_OUTPUT_FOLDER):
-            download_playlist_for_cd(url)
+		os.makedirs(g_OUTPUT_FOLDER)
+
+
+	data = parse_file(config.file)
+
 
-    else:
-        data = parse_file(" ".join(sys.argv[1:]))
 	for album in data:
+
+		if not (config.downloads == "" or config.downloads == album.album):
+			continue
+
 		print(f"Band: {album.artist}")
 		print(f"Album: {album.album}")
 
 		for video in album.tracks:
 			print(f"\tTrack {video.track}: {video.title}")
-
-                if album.album == "Even In Arcadia":
 			download_single_video(
 				video.url,
 				video.track,