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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[–] retiolus@lemmy.cat 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 3 points 4 days 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

[–] retiolus@lemmy.cat 7 points 4 days ago

This is what I was looking for: https://aussie.zone/comment/14715853

https://github.com/justin025/onthespot

[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 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. 🤣