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Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)

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[-] chordsphere1@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I just download to actually have the songs. No DRM, No Ads, No song getting removed from streaming service... I have 500+ songs downloaded in opus format and it only takes 2.5Gb with many of them being longer than 5 minutes. I don't know why people keep using these services while they keep saying they hate it because there are so many ads or why they keep paying for DRM (aka. not owning anything)...

[-] efstajas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Where do you download them from?

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there's tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account "forever".

[-] chordsphere1@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

For Spotify, there is spotdl which downloads the music from YouTube Music, and then embeds the metadata from Spotify.

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I'd rather not even bother ripping that lol

[-] chordsphere1@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Do you have any recommendations on what would be better to do?

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don't get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.

[-] chordsphere1@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I certainly don't have to use Spotify.

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