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!

  • retiolus@lemmy.cat
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    4 days ago

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

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      4 days ago

      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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      4 days ago

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

      • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
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        5 hours ago

        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. 🤣