submitted 1 year ago by nottheengineer@feddit.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The spotify app keeps getting worse by the week. At this point it won't load my saved song list at all when I'm offline. While writing this, it just crashed in the background.

So I've finally had enough and started looking for a ripper to use a different player app.

But try and google for one and you'll be surprised, the only reasonable results are github repos from 5 years ago and before you find one of those, you get a bunch of AI generated trash and some paid services whose websites also look very AI-generated.

Are there any proper ways to do this? Alternative spotify apps exist (though they don't seem to be very usable yet) so I'm sure there's a way to get something from the API, even if it means I need to register for API access.

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[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Pirating music isn't as easy as it was back in the days of Napster. I tried for a year to get FLAC files from Usenet and it was hit or miss, that's why I ended up subscribing to Spotify. It's just easier.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You've been out of the game for too long, friend. We have Lidarr now....among all the other tools mentioned here.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Lidarr automates the acquisition but doesn't actually supply you with any songs to download. I have to agree with them that pirating music is not easy these days and this is coming from someone in about half a dozen private trackers with around 60TB of TV and movies on my server.

Aside from finding the files, there's also barely any standard for file naming and lots of different sources for specific songs (from multiple different albums even) which makes managing it all a huge pain in the ass (Lidarr does help with this part though provided your sources are good).

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, you have to find your own trackers, that's always been the case. And Lidarr does help with renaming and organizing files, yes. I'd argue that this person is making things harder by searching for FLAC files specifically, which is unnecessary. Most people don't care about lossless, so it's harder to find. Makes perfect sense to me.

Also, check out Soulseek. It's a proprietary app that doesn't use torrents, but it's P2P and it's very popular.