submitted 2 days ago by countrypunk@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I don't wanna use Spotify anymore and would like to build my own offline collection of music. The issue is, I have hundreds of albums saved on Spotify that I love listening to. Downloading each individual song would be a royal pain in the ass to do. A lot of the stuff on the megathread doesn't seem to work anymore for music specifically. I also would like to have high quality audio files. Any ideas how to go about doing this? I have no idea how torrenting works.

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[-] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

iirc, spotdl let's you "log in" by storing a specific cookie in a file or getting a token or something. It's probably somewhere in the docs, but I don't remember exactly off the top of my head

[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

It definitely does that for Youtube, but I didn't see the option for Spotify. I last looked at the docs a very long time ago, so its entirely possible it's got some added functionality since.

[-] DanWolfstone@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

It does for Spotify as well but it's only necessary for reading private playlists..

I dl'd my liked songs (2300 songs) about a month back, after about 1400~ YouTube throttled/blocked downloads for a week-ish, so take it slow if anyone is currently considering.