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.
You can rip music from Spotify using Soundbound.
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.
Id like to do the same, but also, not sure about doing it on an iPhone, and I haven’t “pirated” anything but books.
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.
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 ;-;
Just torrent the music you want
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.
Just buy their music! Those are the bands that actually need the support.
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.
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
Encourage those bands to use bandcamp
Not answering OP’s question.
zotify.xyz can rip premium quality directly from spotify if you provide it with premium account credentials.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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Not apple or Spotify, but kinda does what you’re after but with tidal: https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader
It may have stopped working though https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader/issues/1157
If that’s the case, streamrip still works fine with Tidal. Deezer support is currently broken.
In what way is Deezer support broken?
I use soggfy a lot for Spotify, with a premium account this will rip 320 mp3’s for you however I think that is the best you are able to get out of Spotify. You won’t be able to get any lossless rips from Spotify regardless of which method you use as far as I am aware.
Yeah I’m aware of Spotify’s 320k MP3 cap, but for the equipment I’ve got that’s fine. Thanks :)
Likewise for me, 320 is enough as I’m not playing my music on a proper sound system or the like. In that case I can recommend soggfy for it’s ease of use as it is just a modified Spotify client, you play the music you want and it intercepts the incoming stream to rip the music. Nice and easy.
I just make playlists and leave it over night to play etc
