I don’t wanna use Spotify anymore and would like to build my own offline collection of music. The issue is, I have hundreds of albums saved on Spotify that I love listening to. Downloading each individual song would be a royal pain in the ass to do. A lot of the stuff on the megathread doesn’t seem to work anymore for music specifically. I also would like to have high quality audio files. Any ideas how to go about doing this? I have no idea how torrenting works.

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    yt-dlp should work great for this, though it is a command line program

    EDIT: yt-dlp does not work for spotify, I was wrong

      • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        I went to check and apparently yt-dlp doesn’t support spotify, sorry for leading you on. (I was probably thinking of soundcloud)

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        It feeds from YouTube music so you’d be lucky if you can get the clean music version and not the videoclip version with gunshots, cars speeding and people talking over it

      • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Whilst YT-dlp supports many sites, it’s primary function is still downloading from YouTube and that doesn’t have flac. Even YouTube Music Premium only streams at 256 kbps Aac when set at high, I think.

        Using one of those deezer or qobuz bots might be better incase someone really wishes for flac. Or if one wants to invest time, then Soulseek is always there.