Automating Spotify downloads? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by scutiger@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Is there a way to automatically locally save Spotify music as I listen to it? Or to access/convert the files that Spotify saves for offline playback?

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[-] graham1@gekinzuku.com 10 points 2 years ago

You can look into Spotify Downloader spotdl, a Python package here: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader

It doesn't download as you listen, but it'll do something smart and download all the tracks of a playlist/album/etc by grabbing high-quality audio from Youtube videos (and it magically avoids dreaded music video versions) if you feed it a Spotify URL. It also puts all the metadata in the tracks automatically.

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

Tip for anyone else that uses this: make sure your playlist is public or it can't download it. That seems really obvious now, but it didn't occur to me initially lol.