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Also, spytify, for those that are afraid of providing or using your credentials. Disadvantage, can't fast forward, just record in realtime. https://jwallet.git

Also, spytify, for those that are afraid of providing or using your credentials. Disadvantage, can't fast forward, just record in realtime. https://jwallet.github.io/spy-spotify/overview.html https://jwallet.github.io/spy-spotify/overview.html

Hamuko 4y ago
Is it just recording the data to an MP3 file? If so, doesn't that mean that there's a loss in quality?
- input_sh 4y ago
  What loss in quality? Unlike some if its competitors (Tidal HiFi, Deezer Premium, etc), Spotify streams in mp3 quality and they get recorded as such. There are some leaks indicating that Spotify is working on a higher quality plan, but it hasn't happened yet.
  - Rygian 4y ago
    Re-encoding an mp3 results in a worse mp3.
  - skrebbel 4y ago
    When Spotify plays the audio, there's small, generally inaudible MP3 artifacts in the output. When you record that audio and re-encode it to a new MP3 file, these artifacts get re-encoded again, as part of the track, plus new artifacts get added. It's the same as re-encoding a photo to JPEG repeatedly. Every time you save (esp if the quality settings are a little bit different each time, or if a different encoder is used) you get a few more artifacts. At high enough quality settings though, you can do this many times before the result is noticeable. So I bet the quality from re-encoding a Spotify song once is inaudible to most people, just like you can brighten a JPEG and save it without suddenly seeing lots of rectangles everywhere.
    - dav_Oz 4y ago
      Reminds me of those good ol' days of what.cd interviews ;) A bad transcode means that during the transcode process, the file has either been converted to a lossy format more than once, or the file has been converted from lossy to lossless. Bad transcodes are prohibited on What.CD.[0] [0]https://opentrackers.org/whatinterviewprep.com/prepare-for-the-interview/transcodes/index.html https://opentrackers.org/whatinterviewprep.com/prepare-for-t...
  - qilo 4y ago
    Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1683/ https://m.xkcd.com/1683/
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tehforsch 4y ago
For people who are not willing to provide their credentials: I wrote https://github.com/tehforsch/striputary https://github.com/tehforsch/striputary which also records the music (meaning you need to wait for the entire length of the playlist for it to finish) and cuts it into songs. It doesn't require you to provide any credentials (and it should in principle work with other streaming services as well, but I haven't tried). It is probably not the smoothest user experience, given that nobody except me has ever used it, but I've successfully recorded thousands of albums with it so far.

Hamuko 4y ago

Is it just recording the data to an MP3 file? If so, doesn't that mean that there's a loss in quality?

input_sh 4y ago
What loss in quality? Unlike some if its competitors (Tidal HiFi, Deezer Premium, etc), Spotify streams in mp3 quality and they get recorded as such. There are some leaks indicating that Spotify is working on a higher quality plan, but it hasn't happened yet.
- Rygian 4y ago
  Re-encoding an mp3 results in a worse mp3.
- skrebbel 4y ago
  When Spotify plays the audio, there's small, generally inaudible MP3 artifacts in the output. When you record that audio and re-encode it to a new MP3 file, these artifacts get re-encoded again, as part of the track, plus new artifacts get added. It's the same as re-encoding a photo to JPEG repeatedly. Every time you save (esp if the quality settings are a little bit different each time, or if a different encoder is used) you get a few more artifacts. At high enough quality settings though, you can do this many times before the result is noticeable. So I bet the quality from re-encoding a Spotify song once is inaudible to most people, just like you can brighten a JPEG and save it without suddenly seeing lots of rectangles everywhere.
  - dav_Oz 4y ago
    Reminds me of those good ol' days of what.cd interviews ;) A bad transcode means that during the transcode process, the file has either been converted to a lossy format more than once, or the file has been converted from lossy to lossless. Bad transcodes are prohibited on What.CD.[0] [0]https://opentrackers.org/whatinterviewprep.com/prepare-for-the-interview/transcodes/index.html https://opentrackers.org/whatinterviewprep.com/prepare-for-t...
- qilo 4y ago
  Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1683/ https://m.xkcd.com/1683/
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tehforsch 4y ago

For people who are not willing to provide their credentials: I wrote https://github.com/tehforsch/striputary https://github.com/tehforsch/striputary which also records the music (meaning you need to wait for the entire length of the playlist for it to finish) and cuts it into songs. It doesn't require you to provide any credentials (and it should in principle work with other streaming services as well, but I haven't tried). It is probably not the smoothest user experience, given that nobody except me has ever used it, but I've successfully recorded thousands of albums with it so far.