Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' - eviltoast
  • ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there’s tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

    To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account “forever”.

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      5 months ago

      For Spotify, there is spotdl which downloads the music from YouTube Music, and then embeds the metadata from Spotify.

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        5 months ago

        Isn’t YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I’d rather not even bother ripping that lol

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            5 months ago

            If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don’t get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

            I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.