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Downloading spotify music (downonthestreet.eu)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu to c/piracy@lemmy.ml
 

Hi fellow sailor!

i pay (i know, i know) for Spotify Premium and i would like to progressively build my self-hosted music collection leveraging the fact that i am a paying customer and i would hate if the pull songs under my rug over time.

Any good self-hostable approach here? Ideally, the flow would be:

  • I listen to spotify on my mobile devices, add songs to playlists and such
  • my self-host setup syncs those playlists … and download the songs using my paid for premium account from spotify itself
  • Doesn’t really needs to be web-based, i can access my server anbd run anything CLI based or even plain old GUI (linux).

I don’t want fake solutions that use Google Music or Deezer to download, i pay spotify and expect somehow to be able to download 320Kbps music from it.

The overall process can be manual, but better automated.

I already have lidarr, but it’s basically impossible to download the same music from it, at least not the music i listen to.

A viable workaround could be something that builds by spotify playlists using what music i have downloaded with lidarr, maybe notifying me what is missing…

(note: this is a cross post, i originally posted in selfhosters, but tought might be more fitting here)

EDIT: it seems i found a solution. Using Spotizerr let's you download music using spotify directly. I have setup it, linked to spitify (and not to Deezer, to be sure) and it seems that's downloading hi-res OGG files directly from spotify! Will write a wiki page on how i did it later on.

EDIT 2: here is my wiki page on the subject: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aspotizerr

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[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Use soundiiz or a similar service to export your library to a csv or text file, then you can use any number or services like frayr, streamrip, yt-dlp or tidal-dl to download them all.

Lidarr extended scripts also works well for this. https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts/blob/main/lidarr/readme.md

don’t want fake solutions that use Google Music or Deezer to download, i pay spotify and expect somehow to be able to download 320Kbps music from it.

Unfortunately thats all youll find because spotify doesnt allow direct downloading unlike every other music streaming service.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Spotizerr seems to be working! Updated OP.