Start downloading a playlist at a specific point in the playlist, ie 5000/8000

Author: novazen111Created Dec 19, 2025Updated Aug 18, 2026
LabelsFeature Request

Requested Feature

Hello,

I was wondering if it would be possible to download a playlist, but not need to rescan the playlist each time for songs I have matching.

I am trying to download a playlist that is 8000 songs long, and I have 5000 of them. Something like spotdl [playlist-url] -startat 5000

If I run the cmd spotdl [playlist-url], it will rescan my entire folder, and usually hit a max spotify api requests, but I already know the first 5000 songs are matching and already downloaded.

Thanks

Possible implementation

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Source: spotDL/spotify-downloader