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You can use Audacity to record from the Speaker output internally. Just make sure there isn't anything else running that could interfere or make noise (anything connected to push notifications), and you should definitely make sure volume isn't too high else it'll peak and distort.

Avoid Spotify Downloaders, they are a Scam that often just searches for the music on YouTube. For true Spotify exclusives (or ones that just aren't on YouTube) the songs from those will be wrong, or if they're a downloader that is better at matching the songs, will just error because it couldn't find it.

Hook up a Sony Walkman to your headphone port and hit the red round button

Soggfy rips the audio and data from the stream itself as music plays on your machine. No searching the web for the music, no mistakes.

It works well, i hear.

Use zotify. You can download higher quality if you have premium of course.

• Already mention SpotDL
• Spowlo - android app (uses spotdl under the hood)
• Spotifydown - website

I would transfer the playlist to Tidal (there are services out there that will import everything for a few dollars), then use Tidal-dl. The quality is much higher.

Take a look at https://github.com/zotify-dev/zotify

I use Spotdl: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader

It's a python based CLI tool. You run the command and link to song/playlist/album and it basically looks on YT for the song, downloads the audio, the artwork and metadata.

It's what I've been using since I cancelled Spotify last year and decided to own my own library again

I understand these tools download music from spotify servers imitating that you are streaming or “downloading for offline listening”? Are there any risks of getting a ban on the account or something? It would be better if tool would extract already downloaded music for offline listening or intercept download when you press download on spotify on premium account.

Are theses actual rippers, or do they grab the song from elsewhere ?

SpotiFlyer (dead by now) or Soundbound.

I use https://github.com/casualsnek/onthespot . it works well but requires a Spotify account.

I've been using Spytify for a long time.

You can try Votify, but it requires Widevine L3 keys

Not tried it in years, but there was an app called fildo which I think you could give it a playlist url. It was buggy af though.

Apps like Spotube (on F-Droid) allow you to just download the tracks.

I know it's not great, but at the end of the day, a second sound card recording the first one gets the job done. I have loads of rips I did that way. It's kind of annoying to splice the samples and re-encode them with the correct tags though. But by the time you figure out how to rip something directly, you may find that re-recording the audio is quicker.