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Does there exist a solution for ripping music from Spotify? It strikes me as being a relatively simple project, especially given the existence of the web UI, b

• Aachen 2y ago
  What I do is back up a list of songs. I don't want another Grooveshark event, which went down from one day to the next with all my music gone. (I didn't see it coming because, from my point of view, it was like YouTube: artists can sign up to get paid, or to take down their music piecemeal as people reupload it.) Too bad if Spotify disappears and I need to spend a weekend re-adding everything to another service, but that's the legal and easy and low-storage way to back this up I don't remember what the tool was called but it was just a static webpage that talked to the Spotify api, dead simple to use if you know how to register a developer token. Looking for it now, ironically I only find things that will download the songs for you... that need ffmpeg etc... Here's the first github link I found in case that's what you're looking for https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader but it's not the one I meant/used. I'd have to check on my desktop later if you're interested
  • throwaway22032 2y ago
    I've used that before but the issue is that it doesn't rip the songs, it gets the song titles and tries to find them on YouTube which is not reliable. As soon as you have any sort of remix or whatever it will happily download the wrong song. I'm curious as to why extracting the actual song data is so hard, it is playing on my machine after all.