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Where does spotdl look for ffmpeg?

See original GitHub issue

I’ve been trying to run spotdl in Linux on a Chromebook. After many attempts and coding, it finally worked, although it won’t convert spotify’s “.obu” files into the .mp3 format. Every time I download a playlist, it displays FFmpeg was not found in PATH. Will not re-encode media to specified output format

I’m trying to figure out where spotdl looks for ffmpeg so i can change my ffmpeg’s location there. I already download ffmpeg using pip install ffmpeg.

Any ideas?

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ritiekcommented, Jul 7, 2020

Again, this is all mentioned in the docs! Be sure to go through the FAQ section.

On Wed, 8 Jul, 2020, 12:48 AM inksterize, notifications@github.com wrote:

It worked, but the files are being downloaded to the Linux Files folder. Anyway I can make it change to Downloads?

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ritiekcommented, Jul 7, 2020

I’ll close this but let me know if something isn’t clear/mentioned in the docs.

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