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.
If you’re on Linux try zotify, amazingly easy to use, straight from the source, and fast!
Quick disclaimer: some people report their accounts being banned, but I have personally downloaded 6500+ songs and I have been fine as well as plenty of others with similar numbers. If you want to play it safe, you can download really slowly at 1x speed and Spotify can’t tell the difference between downloading and playing media.
@Hedlosa@Blxter if you're a deezer user there's a downloading program called deemix which is pretty good - but coded with electron so contains the trojan horse of all of chrome browser's code (I've been told, not a programmer just passing on information)
'$ ’ indicates a new command (pressing enter) do not type in the space when doing command, only for legibility here.
To search and download something:
$ zotify
$ Keyword for song, album, artist name (eg. The Dark Side of The Moon)
$ number of your selection, top ten of each are shown with a number next, just enter the number and enter
To Download an album, playlist, etc straight up
Copy link of playlist, album, etc in Spotify $ zotify “paste link here”
It’s that easy, should just straight up download
Options; use these by just adding them into the first zotify command after the word ‘zotify’, change values to whatever you want it to do
–download-lyrics=false : does not download the .lrc file and therefore no lyric metadata
–download-format=mp3 : sets download format to mp3, can change to flac, ogg, vorbis, opus (what I use), etc
–download-quality=very_high : if singed in on a premium account, the download quality will be 320kpbs, this should automatically happen, set to high, medium, etc to use free tier listening quality
zotify -l : stands for liked, simply downloads all songs the user has liked
If any of this is wrong or does not make sense feel free to let me know and I will clarify, this was made at 4am after cleaning up dog shit :)
Just want to point out that you can download audio from a Youtube video using yt-dlp and the following options:
<span style="color:#323232;">-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ffprobe)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--audio-format FORMAT Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> vorbis, wav). You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> as --remux-video
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -x. Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)
</span>
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.
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 get that, but if it’s the only place something exists, it might be your only option and I was just tossing it out there so people knew it was available.
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.
I’ve never seen that abbreviation for it before. What you see in search results depends on who’s accounts are online so keep checking every once in a while. My other suggestion is if you use qbittorrent, it actually has a torrent search that I think is disabled for legal disability or something.
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?
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.
Hey, thank you for the advice. I’m aware of the function of an encoder, and use ffmpeg to re-encode the files from .flac to .mp3. But I was looking for a “more comfortable” way.
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 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.
Yea one day when I tried it said I had to disable my ad blocker. So I tried with Firefox on my phone with ad block and it worked like a week later it was working on desktop again.
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…
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