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Is there a way to download (rip) music from spotify library. Let’s say i have a playlist, i would like to have it in mp3 format at selected quality. Many thanks, arrgh you booty lovers!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

You can use Audacity to record from the Speaker output internally. Just make sure there isn't anything else running that could interfere or make noise (anything connected to push notifications), and you should definitely make sure volume isn't too high else it'll peak and distort.

Avoid Spotify Downloaders, they are a Scam that often just searches for the music on YouTube. For true Spotify exclusives (or ones that just aren't on YouTube) the songs from those will be wrong, or if they're a downloader that is better at matching the songs, will just error because it couldn't find it.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hook up a Sony Walkman to your headphone port and hit the red round button

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Ahhh, my old nemesis... Analog Gap! I knew we'd meet again some day!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Soggfy rips the audio and data from the stream itself as music plays on your machine. No searching the web for the music, no mistakes.

It works well, i hear.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Use zotify. You can download higher quality if you have premium of course.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

+1 for zotify. An actual Spotify downloader, not just some YouTube downloader with Spotify search.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

These aren't actual Spotify downloaders:

spotDL finds songs from Spotify playlists on YouTube and downloads them

Source: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/blob/master/README.md

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would transfer the playlist to Tidal (there are services out there that will import everything for a few dollars), then use Tidal-dl. The quality is much higher.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Tidal-dl is simply incredible. Lots of folks out there using this to get rips of new music to upload to sites like RED.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I use Spotdl: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader

It's a python based CLI tool. You run the command and link to song/playlist/album and it basically looks on YT for the song, downloads the audio, the artwork and metadata.

It's what I've been using since I cancelled Spotify last year and decided to own my own library again

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is very cool, but does it something that actually downloads music from Spotify? For a better audio quality...?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know of something that actually downloads from Spotify. The audio on the YouTube music links are fine for me, so I never looked elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

adding the flag --bitrate 320k usually does it for me. I can't really tell the difference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Upvoted. It is literally impossible for 99.99% of the population to tell the difference between a good LAME mp3 encode and the original. If someone is working with the audio, making their own remixes and such, they can benefit from lossless/higher bit depth/higher sample rate though.

There were shitty mp3 encoders like Blade in the past (planted by the music industry?) that are easy to hear a difference, and if dealing with files from an unknown source one can only make an educated guess with a spectrogram as to the files' lineage. Example: Was it a Blade mp3 from Napster burned to audio CD that some moron ripped and posted as flac?

Source: old Hydrogenaudio forums and personally been Exact Audio Copying to flac for over 20 years. Had (modded? custom? can't recall) Envy24 drivers on WinXP for bit-perfect S/PDIF output of "bit-perfect" CD rips. It was overkill but fairly easy to get the digital part perfect, then the analog part can be subjective... never used special stones, or coat hangers as speaker wire. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I understand these tools download music from spotify servers imitating that you are streaming or “downloading for offline listening”? Are there any risks of getting a ban on the account or something? It would be better if tool would extract already downloaded music for offline listening or intercept download when you press download on spotify on premium account.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I don't believe those tools download directly from Spotify. They use the Spotify api to gather the metadata then they download the files off YouTube.

As I've seen others say, probably what you want to do is download them off Tidal or Quboz. Those YouTube rips suck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I just looked up, what about librespot? Does anyone have experience with it? Would that help to achieve such results?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Are theses actual rippers, or do they grab the song from elsewhere ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

SpotiFlyer (dead by now) or Soundbound.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I use https://github.com/casualsnek/onthespot . it works well but requires a Spotify account.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This looks to be abandoned, but there is an updated fork that works excellent: https://github.com/justin025/onthespot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I knew it was unmaintainable, but it still worked. Nice to see there's a fork.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've been using Spytify for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Ditto, it's very capable and easy to use

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Not tried it in years, but there was an app called fildo which I think you could give it a playlist url. It was buggy af though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

You can try Votify, but it requires Widevine L3 keys

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I know it's not great, but at the end of the day, a second sound card recording the first one gets the job done. I have loads of rips I did that way. It's kind of annoying to splice the samples and re-encode them with the correct tags though. But by the time you figure out how to rip something directly, you may find that re-recording the audio is quicker.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's better to avoid re-encoding as it lose quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Of course it is, no question. But when there's no other choice...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the modern day equivalent of recording radio broadcasts to magnetic tape. Made a few mixtapes that way myself. They were absolute garbage quality and I never listen to them anymore, but it was an interesting exercise and my only option for some stuff at the time.

Now I just buy as directly from the artist as I can for things that are rare enough that they are difficult to pirate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

we were "clever" and called the ka-chunk tapes because of the terrible song transitions. Yes Bandcamp has been my purchase site for a while now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Apps like Spotube (on F-Droid) allow you to just download the tracks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Spotube only gets the metadata from Spotify. It pulls the actual audio track from YouTube, so the quality is nowhere near as good as on Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The more you know. Thanks for correcting me. I've been using it for a while and didn't know that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I was wrong too, YouTube provides 160kbps audio tracks, just like the free version of Spotify. You only get the full 320 kbps if you subscribe to Spotify Premium. But you need a tool like Votify or Zotify to download from Spotify.