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!

  • Yer Ma
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    702 days ago

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

    • tenchikenM
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      192 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    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]
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      62 days ago

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

  • Bigfoot
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    122 days 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 days ago

    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

  • Dropper-PostOP
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    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]
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      122 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.

    • Dropper-PostOP
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      32 days ago

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

  • Matt
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    42 days ago

    SpotiFlyer (dead by now) or Soundbound.

    • kryllic
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      12 days ago

      Ditto, it’s very capable and easy to use

  • @[email protected]
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    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]
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      32 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        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

  • @Sat
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    12 days ago

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

      • @Sat
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        12 days ago

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

        • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼M
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          11 day 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.