Recording Spotify to your DAW, can this get your account banned? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Does Spotify have a way to see if your computer is recording with your DAC's stereo mix? And if so, is there a way around it?

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So I use windows, does this mean I'm good then? Or is this some setting I need to toggle on?

[-] vardogor@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On Windows, there is a Secure Audio Path API to prevent interception of the audio signal.

this would mean no, you're not good.

and you need to take their second bit of advice to heart! always shoot for higher bitrate files if you're learning to produce. manipulating lossy files will often sound nastier, so get FLACs/WAVs of the songs instead. with those two reasons + the fact that Spotify could possibly have unnoticeable watermarks while streaming even if it does work, I would strongly advise against getting your samples this way

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

im not producing and this is for my own use. Also I listen to obscure music that isn't available as torrent yet.

So Audacity has the option to loopback into the software. Spotify shouldn't see this correct? How does that get around the the Windows piracy protection?

[-] vardogor@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

gotcha. then yeah, i wouldn't worry about them noticing you're recording with Audacity

fwiw if it's any easier, deezer usually has a similar library to spotify, and free-mp3-download.net downloads from there with a bit better quality too.