The spotify app keeps getting worse by the week. At this point it won’t load my saved song list at all when I’m offline. While writing this, it just crashed in the background.
So I’ve finally had enough and started looking for a ripper to use a different player app.
But try and google for one and you’ll be surprised, the only reasonable results are github repos from 5 years ago and before you find one of those, you get a bunch of AI generated trash and some paid services whose websites also look very AI-generated.
Are there any proper ways to do this? Alternative spotify apps exist (though they don’t seem to be very usable yet) so I’m sure there’s a way to get something from the API, even if it means I need to register for API access.
Just pirate everything.
The only music worth paying for is the one that comes on physical media or videogame soundtracks on Steam. 💿🎵
Pirating music isn’t as easy as it was back in the days of Napster. I tried for a year to get FLAC files from Usenet and it was hit or miss, that’s why I ended up subscribing to Spotify. It’s just easier.
You’ve been out of the game for too long, friend. We have Lidarr now…among all the other tools mentioned here.
Lidarr automates the acquisition but doesn’t actually supply you with any songs to download. I have to agree with them that pirating music is not easy these days and this is coming from someone in about half a dozen private trackers with around 60TB of TV and movies on my server.
Aside from finding the files, there’s also barely any standard for file naming and lots of different sources for specific songs (from multiple different albums even) which makes managing it all a huge pain in the ass (Lidarr does help with this part though provided your sources are good).
Spotify streaming quality isn’t great anyway. Choose a different streaming service like Tidal which has actively maintained tools to get what you need
most of those services require a paid tidal plan to access higher quality downloads, and tidal / qobuz / etc aren’t available in my country for some reason
I literally made my own. Pulls down the OGG directly and saves it, then uses Spotify’s own APIs to correctly tag the file
Sounds like a good idea. Zotify keeps throwing meter-long stacktraces at me about SSL errors that I assume are API rate limits because there’s less of them when I use real-time downloading.
Maybe it’s even a nice project for an android app because zotify doesn’t run there yet.
Check out spotDL. I use Musicolet as a player on my phone
Try slavart dot gamesdrive dot net (or use their server on divolt.xyz)
Their website lets you search for songs and download them, or their Divolt for using a bot that lets you type $dl link-to-song and it’ll send you a download link.
Also the Divolt bot supports Spotify, Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer, and if I remember correctly Apple Music links.
