I don't wanna use Spotify anymore and would like to build my own offline collection of music. The issue is, I have hundreds of albums saved on Spotify that I love listening to. Downloading each individual song would be a royal pain in the ass to do. A lot of the stuff on the megathread doesn't seem to work anymore for music specifically. I also would like to have high quality audio files. Any ideas how to go about doing this? I have no idea how torrenting works.

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[–] AceSLS@ani.social 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

FMHY has some good ones for high quality music. Organizing your Library will also be real easy with Musicbrainz Picard.

As for mass downloading there should be some Spotify downloaders out there. Every other way will proly not be able to get 100% of your library. Just make sure to use a trusted one, because you'll most likely have login with your account to access your saved stuff & playlists.

Personally I download from Tidal for HiFi (yt-dlp + hifi-tui) and Youtube Music (yt-dlp) for everything else.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just make sure to use a trusted one, because you’ll most likely have login with your account to access your saved stuff & playlists.

I used SpotDL, personally. Not sure if it even supports logging in, but you can just make your playlists public for a few minutes while you download them. It does require you to do every playlist individually, afaik, there's not just a 'my whole account' option. If you have youtube premium/youtube music you can DL high quality as well, though getting that to work was a bit tricky for me. I don't generally mess with programs lacking a GUI, though, so it's probably mostly a me issue.

[–] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

iirc, spotdl let's you "log in" by storing a specific cookie in a file or getting a token or something. It's probably somewhere in the docs, but I don't remember exactly off the top of my head

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It definitely does that for Youtube, but I didn't see the option for Spotify. I last looked at the docs a very long time ago, so its entirely possible it's got some added functionality since.

[–] DanWolfstone@leminal.space 1 points 15 hours ago

It does for Spotify as well but it's only necessary for reading private playlists..

I dl'd my liked songs (2300 songs) about a month back, after about 1400~ YouTube throttled/blocked downloads for a week-ish, so take it slow if anyone is currently considering.