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spotdl web just searches for a song named "web" (Windows, pip)

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System OS

Windows

Python Version

3.10 (CPython)

Install Source

pip / PyPi

Install version / commit hash

3.9.6

Expected Behavior vs Actual Behavior

Expected: open a web browser to a localhost webpage Actual: downloads “070 Shake - Web” from Spotify…

Steps to reproduce - Ensure to include actual links!

Enter “spotdl web” as per installation instructions

Traceback

C:\WINDOWS\system32>spotdl web
Searching Spotify for song named "web"...
Skipping "070 Shake - Web" as it's already downloaded

Other details

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

xnetcatcommented, Jun 28, 2022

Duplicate #1348

0reactions

Silverarmorcommented, Jun 29, 2022

Duplicate #1348

Not a duplicate, the issue is the web UI doesn’t start and the script attempts to download something else…the “already downloaded” was simply what was part of the return since this was the 2nd time it happened…

Expected: open a web browser to a localhost webpage Actual: downloads “070 Shake - Web” from Spotify…

Apologies for the error there, that was meant to say Duplicate of #1548

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