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Hi all,

I've been scouring around for a tool to do this for some time but haven't had any luck, hence here I am once again asking for your pirate support.

I'm aware of Cider, but it doesn't do High-Quality Lossless and the people behind it seem a bit scummy to be honest; the whole Cider 2 thing. Forgive me if I'm wrong, and please correct me.

I'm quite keen on doing this since I'm part of an Apple Family plan, so I don't pay a penny for the service but still get full access. I've got terabytes of storage just waiting to share music via Soulseek.

While I'm at it here, might as well ask if anyone's got a similar thing for Spotify? It's the same deal with the whole Family plan thing (It's a complex situation) so downloading from that service is just as appealing, though AM is preferred because quality.

Sidenote, I don't want any of these tools that just match the song and rip from YouTube; always gives crap quality.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

zotify.xyz can rip premium quality directly from spotify if you provide it with premium account credentials.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

That was looking really good, however it doesn't seem to download into separate sub-directories which is rather annoying. I'll keep my eye on that though, thanks :D

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can get it to do subdirectories by editing the 'output' setting in the config file. ex: '{artist}/{album}/{song_title}.{ext}' would give each artist their own directory and further split the songs into their own album directory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! Seems like Opus doesn't work though which is a shame. I made an issue on the Github page. I'll make a script to do that after and preserve the cover art.

I've now got it going with real-time downloads, this is going to take days 😭. However this tool is the best out of a set of compromises so I'll make the most of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd also recommend setting the "song_archive" option if you haven't already....especially with real time downloads. Just in case. I'm....unfortunately speaking from experience

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've got it downloading non-real time right now cause I was able to fix the Opus issue (PR is open on Github "Effective libopus support"), so I want to stress-test my changes a bit.

I'll switch it back to real-time soon, and I'll turn on the archive :P.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

When I provide it an artist name, it downloads all of their songs into subfolders with an album name. When I provide it a playlist however, it downloads all songs into one folder. They still have album an artist in the metadata, do I'm pretty sure it can be sorted after the download.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

This thing is getting too popular, I wonder how long it will be able to last.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

THANK YOU!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

doubledouble.top

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can’t download FLACs from this site but I’ve been using spotifydown.com for quite sometime now and the audio quality imo has been super solid so far imo. Really has helped me massively in terms of relying less on Spotify since I can just rip the song from there and therefore have my own copy of the tracks/albums etc.

I’ve also used Psst too as an alternative to the current spotify client on my laptop and that’s been also great too, much more lightweight than the main client, but unfortunately premium is a must if you want to fully use it though ;-;

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not apple or Spotify, but kinda does what you're after but with tidal: https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If that's the case, streamrip still works fine with Tidal. Deezer support is currently broken.

https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In what way is Deezer support broken?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The dowloaded files can't be played and testing .flacs with flac -t throws errors.

https://github.com/nathom/streamrip/issues/656

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I recently got an HDMI splitter and usb-c capture card to start recording TV. HDMI splitter downgrades the HDCP of the firetv stick so the capture card can record it. You might be able do the same with an apple TV as well. Have it play a playlist of music while recording then split the recording into the separate songs and get rid of the video. This isn't as nice as actually downloading the music but I'm not sure of an easier way using those services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You can rip music from Spotify using Soundbound.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You can check out this module for OrpheusDL. I haven’t personally used that Apple Music module but I have used OrpheusDL and it grabs lossless from other services. Not sure if Atmos changes things though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Id like to do the same, but also, not sure about doing it on an iPhone, and I haven’t “pirated” anything but books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Seems like most of the tools I'm finding are CLIs, so iPhones or just phones in general are definitely a no-go I'm afraid.

If you listen to popular artists, you could try Soulseek. Not sure on how easy it is to access it on an iPhone though, I've never owned any Apple devices since I went off them at a young age so I'm really firing off into the dark.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Just torrent the music you want

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

See, torrent availability is more or less directly correlated to the size of the artist / band in question. So when you get someone who's into some rather niche stuff and has quite a few small bands in their streaming library, torrenting is just not an option.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just buy their music! Those are the bands that actually need the support.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, of course I shoot some support over their way. It's just if I do that it also comes down to the whole ownership thing too, hence the downloading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Encourage those bands to use bandcamp

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Maybe reach out to the smaller artists, then? I’m sure most of them aren’t opposed to sending you a file if you pay

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Not answering OP's question.