Using --add-metadata ?

[NickWinston123]

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How do I set the artist and album name, album, artist, etc. of a track if it can't find it?

I do use -o but it rarely finds the correct info for soundcloud tracks

youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/slightbeats/bloodshed-ft-viggoo --embed-thumbnail -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -f mp3 --prefer-ffmpeg --verbose -i

[dstftw]

You can parse additional metadata from title with --metadata-from-title.

[NickWinston123]

@dstftw Ive tried this but it doesnt find the right information, is there no way to manually add the information through youtube-dl?

[yan12125]

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[NickWinston123]

@yan12125
Well for example I have something called ampache running on a local server

I use youtube-dl to download soundcloud user's tracks, then include the songs in ampache so I can listen to them locally.

Youtube-dl does get the title of the song correct and the thumbnail, but if it can't find the artist then it doesn't set anything so I must manually set that in ampache, which takes a very long time and when I want to update / refresh the songs once I add more I have to redo the whole process

What I would like to be able to do is something like -o, but not for the name of the file. I want to set the artist or album name instead of it try to find it

youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/slightbeats/ --embed-thumbnail -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -f mp3 --prefer-ffmpeg --verbose -i --set-artist "SLIGHT" --set-album "SLIGHT Collection"

[yan12125]

Does ampache read from extended attributes (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/536a55d/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py#L139-L147) or MP3's ID3 metadata? The latter is not implemented yet and already requested in #5957.