Qobuz & Tidal Web Extensions Downloaders (nicopr.fr)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by nicopowa@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi music sailors !

A few months ago i posted Qobuz / Tidal web extension FLAC downloaders testing versions.
Still working on it, looking for feedback :)

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[-] SmallBorg@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

What are the risks of using tools like these? Can the service providers cancel my account or worst? Do they even know that these tools are being used?

[-] gravitas@lem.ugh.im 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ive downloaded over 150k tracks from tidal using tidal dl and after a lot of testing the most theyve done to counter is rate limiting or blocking the IP i was using, but if you stick with reasonable limits of how quickly you are downloading tidal doesnt seem to care much.

[-] nicopowa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've been using both extensions almost every day for more than a year without getting banned, but there is always a risk.
Since the code is running inside a real browser, it might be more stealth than command line tools, not really sure about that.
Original tidal-dl-ng had a delay option to wait between tracks downloads, maybe i'll implement the same feature.