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I ditched most streaming services well over a year ago now, but Spotify has clung on because I have a playlist of around 2000 songs. I've set up Navidrome but now need to transfer all my music in the highest quality possible as efficiently as possible.

I tried lidarr some time ago, but it seemed to be based more around artists than individual songs and my indexer failed to find most of my library.

I've seen a couple of apps that will look at a playlist and then try to yt-dlp the song from YouTube but I'm worried about having a lower quality or different version. I've wondered if automating an "analog hole" type approach where I just pipe the audio of each song to a file and leave it playing overnight for a couple of weeks might actually be the best approach but that does seem a bit insane at this scale.

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[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ytdlp works with Spotify too iirc, and there are Spotify downloaders out there too.

[–] dabe@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every spotify downloader I’ve seen just matches to youtube and uses yt-dlp in the backend. I may have missed a new one though.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've used Zotify. It downloads from Spotify directly in .ogg format. It fails a bit here and there, so requires you to watch that everything actually downloaded, but it beats any random YouTube quality video other programs would find otherwise.

[–] dbkblk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is it? I've just tried and it doesn't:

❯ yt-dlp "https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/2NsGk9oBBBMfblYdLcjYhu"
[generic] Extracting URL: https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/2NsGk9oBBBMfblYdLcjYhu
[generic] 2NsGk9oBBBMfblYdLcjYhu?si=5c3b12c1e70948a6: Downloading webpage
[redirect] Following redirect to https://open.spotify.com/album/2NsGk9oBBBMfblYdLcjYhu
[DRM] Extracting URL: https://open.spotify.com/album/2NsGk9oBBBMfblYdLcjYhu
ERROR: [DRM] The requested site is known to use DRM protection. It will NOT be supported.
       Please DO NOT open an issue, unless you have evidence that the video is not DRM protected
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Spotify is not supported.