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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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[-] JoMomma@lemm.ee 68 points 1 day ago

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

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[-] fossit@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago
[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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

[-] reshin@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

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

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

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

[-] bigfoot@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

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.

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

[-] retiolus@lemmy.cat 9 points 1 day ago

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

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

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Dropper_Post@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day 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.

[-] Dropper_Post@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Yuki@kutsuya.dev 9 points 1 day ago
[-] zante@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I've been using Spytify for a long time.

[-] kryllic@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Ditto, it's very capable and easy to use

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] retiolus@lemmy.cat 10 points 1 day ago

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

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

You can try Votify, but it requires Widevine L3 keys

[-] florge@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day 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.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] ivn@jlai.lu 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] badhops@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

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