I often used this site to download flac songs that I was unable to find on SLSK or other torrents. Is there an alternative to this site that anyone knows of. It will be missed.
Download straight from the source like Deezer so you know your file is legit and not a user generated file who re-encodes a 128kbps mp3 to flac.
It only lets me search from Spotify. I tried manually selecting Deezer, but it still shows just Spotify.
Just make a free account on Deezer, get the link of the song or album and paste it on the the doubletop website.
Such a great tool, but I would love to just download in MP3 320, as FLAC is overkill for a music collection, and eats storage for breakfast :-( Is there something similar for MP3 320?
Yes, get the Spotify link of a song, playlist or album. Then go to the options of doubledouble top, choose for MP3 320kpbs in the Spotify section.
If you learn how an encoder works you can compress the FLAC into whatever format you prefer yourself. I highly recommend 256kbps AAC using Apple’s encoder (specifically that encoder, other AAC encoders are much worse) but you can also do VBR MP3 in any bitrate you want. Plus, if you keep the FLACs in archive, you can re-compress them later to a better format if one is developed.
Crap.
But it already enshittified slightly. It had ad-block blocking and hostile tracking BS added recently. You’d have to manually unclick each vendor for the “Genuine interest” section which would take like 2 minutes as you had to click it one-by-one.
Could have just kept the ads as they were and added a donation button.
Anyway, I’ve also been using http://flacmusicfinder.com/ as well. However, this one just links to user-added content, so the quality may vary. I recommend using Spek to check the FLACs.
It’s not as nice to navigate, but oh well, you only download every song once anyway.
For the vendor (non-)consent thing - Consent-O-Matic provides an appropriate framework.
(Whether such a side would even care about the preference/consent is another matter entirely - I’d suggest a throwaway browser identity and cookie auto delete for a start, anyway.)
Creating rules has a bit of a learning curve the first three or seven times, but I find that more interesting to do than go through a hostile/dark pattern cookie dialog or such the third time.
Hm, maybe the appropriate functionality from CoM could be re-wrapped as a TamperMonkey module…
Web automation for the masses 😱
Damn, Nintendo’s going after everyone
Just want to point out that you can download audio from a Youtube video using yt-dlp and the following options:
-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and
ffprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently
supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus,
vorbis, wav). You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax
as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with
-x. Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a
specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)
You might have to use a tool to re-do the tags, but that’s pretty easy to do. Edit: also want to point out that yt-dlp also works with a number of other sites besides Youtube.
This is a method I use regularly but I don’t think you’re going to obtain any lossless content from youtube.
Youtube audio quality is such crap though. Whenever I try pirating music via youtube there’s never a bass channel. I have a good stereo system in my car so that’s not acceptable.
I suggest trying out this YouTube Music app. You can install a plugin from the app that will use yt-dlp and download from YouTube Music which gets you slightly better audio quality at 256kbps vs downloading from a YouTube video.
man this sucks
