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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    4 days ago

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

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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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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        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

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

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          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. 🤣

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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.

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      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.

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      4 days ago

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

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    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.

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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.

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

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      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.

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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