What is the current way to download from music streamers like deezer, spotify, qobuz etc. Preferably lossless and preferably with a GUI. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've been using Deemix for several years, but it's not maintained anymore and it finally stopped working :<

But the way it worked was you paid for a deezer.com subscription and gave the login arl token to the deemix app. Then the app could download the music files using your account.

Is there anything like that these days?

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[-] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

Is there a particular reason for downloading from streaming services? If not and lossless is important to you, it might be easier to use something like Soulseek (via Nicotine) and get flac files. There are some projects like SockSeek that can automate downloads (I used it when it was called sldl to convert my YouTube playlists into a local flac music library).

[-] micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

is sockseek one of those clients that doesn't share back and just leeches off the network?

If so please don't use it, people have started putting capatchas on their shares because of these clients and it messes up legitimate clients like slskd

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Soulseek is like Napster. You're not downloading from a swarm just directly from others and once you host those files, people can download them from you.

[-] micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

I am well aware of what soulseek is. sockseek is not soulseek though, it's a vibe coded app that doesn't share back to the network and causes issues with legitimate clients.

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