T0t0bia_s·Nov 11, 2023Recommendation phrase
For backup, I recommend Spytify. Just in case...
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6 sourcesSpytify – Spotify Recorder for Windows
3 points · Open discussionSpytify is a Spotify recorder for Windows which records Spotify audio
3 points · Open discussion> So I pirate the movie (please don't arrest me, it's google's fault)
I really like the frank tone of the article and I wish people in general would just write unabashedly more often when it comes to stuff like this. Writers online love to dance around the idea of "pirating" their digital goods when communicating on the topic: "Ooh my 'friend' may or may not have downloaded 'xyz' movie from 'abc' website, but I don't advocate piracy".
I pirate music. I pirate movies. Who gives a fuck? I'm not selling it for money. I love having mp4 files, I love having mp3 files. I ESPECIALLY love pirating mp3 files ever since Spotify and the streaming/subscription model has taken over. spytify automatically records mp3 files with metadata tags while you personally listen to Spotify https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify
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sessions has saved me countlessly over the years and it will continue to. I had my music uploaded to Google Play Music, and once that was shut down (the equivalent songs are not in the replacement), I swore off streamed music as a way to organize my personal library, forever. When I end up liking enough content from an artist, I try to find best avenues for compensation, like Bandcamp or SoundCloud.
The things I could be doing better in this regard is better file organization and encrypting everything to safeguard against when cloud file-hosting services come for me based on some dystopian DRM file-content scanning scheme. I've not hit that extreme point yet, however, although I should get around to it sooner than later with rclone (makes it trivially easy) https://github.com/rclone/rclone
And when a situation like the article arises, getting your auntie access to The Wizard of Oz might just be an Airdrop away.
This (commercial) program[1] does the job for Spotify. I think what it does is just play the given playlist then it sets Spotify's audio output to a virtual audio device similar to BlackHole[2], then reads from it, encodes the audio, fetches the metadata (including album art) and sets it. There are open source[3] alternatives[4] but I haven't tested them.
[1] https://www.noteburner.com
[2] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
[3] https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify
[4] https://github.com/richardk80/spotify-ripper
In Building an iPod for 2022https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify
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