Spotify. How to Download and Convert

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  1. RMorgan

    RMorgan Audiosexual

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    Hi everyone, how are you?

    Well, I've been using Allavsoft to download full albums from Spotify for quite a while, but it simply stopped working a few days ago.

    I don't know, probably Spotify has changed their code to inhibit this kind of practice.

    If any of you have the habit of using software to download from Spotify, could you please confirm if it's working? Who knows...Maybe it's something on my side here.

    Also, which software have you been using for this? Any recommendations?

    Thanks,

    M.
     
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  3. diazz100

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  5. gatus

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    TunesKit Spotify Converter for mac or pc .....or Sidify Music Converter
    I use it:wink:
     
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  6. Joe Gromny

    Joe Gromny Newbie

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    NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter is cool. I've been running it for almost half a year.
     
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  8. Plainview

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    I dont know if its possible from spotify , deemix downloads 320 kbps and flac from deezer , you will probably find what you want
    https://deemix.app/
     
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  9. _wildpineapple_

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  10. Epcot

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    Losslessly Download Spotify Songs at 5X Speed
    Spotify Music Converter is simply the best choice for those who wish to remove DRM from Spotify music. It allows to strip off the DRM from any Spotify song or playlist, and keeps original quality of the audio. After removing DRM, you can enjoy Spotify music on your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, MP3 player, etc.

    A brilliant Spotify DRM removal app designed to download and convert Spotify music songs, playlists, albums, and artists to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, M4A, M4B losslessly, offering you a great experience to enjoy Spotify music offline on any player and device.

    Losslessly preserve original quality and metadata of Spotify music
    Unlike many other Spotify downloaders or recorders that rip songs through recording and get unexpected noise or quality reduction on the final output music, TunesKit Spolity Music Converter combines with the latest DRM music decryption technology so it can easily crack the DRM encryption from Spotify music without any quality loss. As a result, the ID tags and metadata info of the Spotify streams, such as artist, track number, year, genre, composer, etc will be retained 100%.

    Losslessly preserve original quality and metadata of Spotify music
     
  11. recycle

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    Losslessly convert a crappy 160k spotify stream into a useless flac
     
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    Whenever something is needed, somebody comes in and claims that AI can do it. In this case, too, it's better to wait and see if artificial intelligence can restore the original quality.
     
  13. ProJay

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    You can use auCDetect to check if it's upsampled.
     
  14. recycle

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    Spotify: here you have the spec
    • Low – Equivalent to approximately 24kbit/s
    • Normal – Equivalent to approximately 96kbit/s
    • High – Equivalent to approximately 160kbit/s
    • Very high (Premium only) - Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s
    (source: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/high-quality-streaming/)

    Their encoding is AAC (lossy), this means that the file has already suffered an irreversible damage, even if you re-encode it in a loseless format you will never be able to return to its original audio quality
     
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  15. EddieXx

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    without the premium you might as well dl from youtube and get probably around the same quality.

    320kbps in premium could be worth if you turn it into flac, but also beware because we really dont know how much truth there is to these programs promises, how they really process the files and neither do we really know much about many of files spotify uses as source material all the time

    it all really depends what the goal with the files is. if its for an "audiophile" experience or just getting your hands on a hard to find file.

    regarding quality i appreciate the both "extremes", i use flac for listening experience, for playing out, for editing/reference etc.

    but if a track is hard to find and i just want to have it, mostly old school stuff, i feel fine with even a 128kbps mp3 in my collection, but then all i really care of the emotional motive of the lyrics etc, folklore and similar stuff
     
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  16. jazzzz

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    Sorry to interrupt you in your alternative reality but NONE of these spotify converters remove DRM and the word "lossless" should never be mentioned in regards to Spotify.
    These converters grab the audio through a virtual cable while being played and save it as whatever format they offer but nothing to do with removing DRM...
    And you can't be sure which one steals your premium account login, if not all of them do.
    During a period of time (a week), after trying some of these I got several alerts from Spotify that someone logged in with my account from very far and bizarre countries. I had to change my password and never used these programs again.
     
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    I just checked Streamliner plugin from Pluginalliance.
    Spotify source format is 320kbits Ogg Vorbis
    Deezer is FLAC
    So i will stick to Deemix and Deezloader :guru:

    and after nearly two years of using it, i must add that sometimes Deemix (formerly DeezloaderRemix) sometimes downloads a 320 kbits mp3 when the source is not available in FLAC. It happens. Rarely but still worth mentioning...
     
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  18. yabiss

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    Use Deemix for Deezloader. Better GUI and source quality. My 2 cents
     
  19. recycle

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    In free mode, Deezer streams in 128k, So how can you have a flac from them? Do you pay the HiFi subscription?
     
  20. gzilla

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    No need to pay, deezer has weak protection than spotify so you can download flac even free account.
     
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  21. recycle

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    I just installed Deezmix: IT WORKS!!!

    Flac files are the real stuff:
    [​IMG]

    today my life has changed completely...
    Thanks @yabiss & @gzilla for showing me the way
     
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