Get New Songs for iPhone

Here is 3 step process to get recently released songs to your iPhone.

Step 1: Get youtube-dl

Install pip

To install pip, securely download get-pip.py.

Then run the following (which may require administrator access):

$ sudo python get-pip.py

Install youtube-dl

$ sudo pip install youtube-dl

Step 2: Find the youtube link for your song

Copy the link address.

Step 3: Finally Download it.

Where

$ cd ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes.localized

How

$ youtube-dl -f 141 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

Sync

Finally, sync your mac’s entire music library with your iPhone.

Bonus

Put these aliases in your /etc/bashrc file and use the command instead.

alias getsong='youtube-dl -f 141 '
alias get360p='youtube-dl -f 18 '

And yes, you can also download and sync video files as well. Use get360p for that.