I am looking to save all the music I like on hardisks due to the recent closure of rarbg which was a wake up call “unless you save it you don’t own it”. So if anyone knows a way to download playlists instead of each single song I will be thankful!
Spotify music is all encrypted rather well (at-rest when downloaded and when streamed), so the best “automatic” option there is are bots that try to match Spotify songs with YouTube uploads and get those instead, but I’ve never found those to be super accurate for what I listen to.
If you need like CD quality≤, your best bet is just doing it all manually, either through torrent sites, DDL sites, or Soulseek.
Yes, the majority of what I found are bots that get you YouTube uploads which do not really work as music videos have like 30 secs of movie-like intros etc.
I started doing it manually, but it takes so much time, it would take me a few months to do it, feels like LimeWire days haha
don’t get music from streaming services because it’s too low quality. instead hunt for FLAC format. it’s lossless.
i pay for spotify premium (yes i hate ads THAT much) and when i download songs with it for playing offline there’s a weird high gate cutoff which i can clearly notice and sounds like a dogwhistle to me. pretty sure it’s the encryption rather than the sound quality tho. don’t go that option - it removes too much of the shape of the music, fuzzes out too many subtle details.
if you’re willing to pay for it, bandcamp.
