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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] 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 11 minutes 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] 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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] 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You can try Votify, but it requires Widevine L3 keys

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

I've been using Spytify for a long time.

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

Ditto, it's very capable and easy to use

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

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day 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 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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 21 hours 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 19 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 3 points 1 day 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 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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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