Program a Newgrounds Audio Downloading Tool through Geometry Dash

This guide will show you how to make a Batch program to copy over songs downloaded by GD through Newgrounds to a basic folder where you can enjoy them.

DISCLAIMER

This is a somewhat useless tool. You can still use it though, but I only use it for personal use and thats all. So, there really is no point in reading this guide, unless you want a cool optional feature for mass downloading Newgrounds music... :)

Preperation

Some things you will need to start:

• A copy of Geometry Dash
  
• Windows, or a OS compatible with Windows Batch Files (.bat)
  
• A notepad-esque program (Notepad, Natepad++, ect.)
  
• Access to your AppData folder

It is highly reccomended you have a basic idea of .bat files and a Windows OS. (If you find ways to do this on Mac or Linux, let me know!)

Setting Up

Now that you are ready, open up your notepad program.
Next, open up a file browser and go to where GD stores local files(in this case, all downloaded music.) If you are running windows OS, the path for these files is as follows:
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\GeometryDash
Manually you can also find the normally hidden folder AppData by typing %appdata% at the start menu. And here is a little trick to unhide it without unhiding anything else:

• Enter AppData using the Start Menu.
  
• Right Click an empty space on the open folder and click Properties.
  
• Uncheck the 'Hidden' box, and hit apply. Now, AppData will always be visible through your User folder.

If you are successful and you have lots of music installed from GD, many MP3 files should show up and level data as well.
Finally, have the URL of the destination folder of your music on hand so you can copy it into the program. Now you are ready to begin.

Making the file

Now to make the actual file.

• First, copy the URL of your music folder. You will need this later.
  
• Now, type these lines into your notepad:

@echo off
xcopy *GD MUSIC URL**.mp3 *DESTINATION FOLDER* /s /y /d /w
pause

• Paste the URL of the original music folder into the *GD MUSIC URL* spot, and make sure the *.mp3 is latched on the the end. That makes sure the program only grabs .mp3 files, which they are stored as, and not the level data files.
  
• Next, copy and paste the destination folder URL into the corresponding section of code.

The four letters are parameters that are optional, but can improve the style of the program. They are:

• /s This will copy all subdirectories, just in case you may have them.
  
• /y Will negate the warning saying to overwrite a file.
  
• /d Will only overwrite files that are older that the one ready to be copied over.
  
• /w Lets you press a key before starting the copy.

• With that, you should be done. Now Save the file as anything.bat (Must be a Batch file for it to work. )
  This is my personal copy of the backup program.
  
  • Now, try it out!

Conclusion

I hope this guide helped you make a useful program to make a backup of all those songs. This program can help hold those music files without having to keep going back to the AppData folder. And, since they are held in a seperate directory, songs that were taken down will be permanently held on your hard drive. Thank you for reading, and I hope i helped. :)

[MoistPigeon]

i cant do this i have no use in useing it but cool

[Exe]

For people who aren´t programmers

[Exe]

Great guide.

[pimpsqueak]

Lol, that's cool.
It isn't useful for me tho