I don’t wanna use Spotify anymore and would like to build my own offline collection of music. The issue is, I have hundreds of albums saved on Spotify that I love listening to. Downloading each individual song would be a royal pain in the ass to do. A lot of the stuff on the megathread doesn’t seem to work anymore for music specifically. I also would like to have high quality audio files. Any ideas how to go about doing this? I have no idea how torrenting works.

  • BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 days ago

    If you are a real music enthusiast then I’d recommend you to join Private Trackers for Music, REDacted (RED) and OrPheuS (OPS) are the two big ones. RED is pretty much the successor of What cd. You’d be able to find pretty much all the music you could ask for on RED/OPS and in the highest quality (FLAC). To join them, you’d have to attend their interview (text based) on their IRC. They’d ask you basic questions about music and bittorrent. You can find more information here - https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html

    I’m just warning you, Do NOT, under any circumstance, visit their site while the interview is going on (i.e. while they’re asking you questions), they monitor all the traffic coming on that site and if you’re caught, you’d be banned from all the major private trackers forever. Don’t stress it, all the information they’re gonna ask is on the interview site, read it a couple of times and then queue for the interview, getting the interview is the hard part as the interviewers are voluntary members of RED so there are not many of them. Most of the interview happen on the weekends but you would need to queue in a few days ago to get a good position in the queue.

    • countrypunk@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Woah, thank you for this. I’ve wanted to learn more about torrenting and how music files work anyway so actually sitting down and needing to study for this is a big plus.

  • Tenkard@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Pay for one month of tidal premium, they have an official tool to migrate Playlists from Spotify, then you can use streamrip to download from tidal

  • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    a really good resource for that would be SHARING MORE POTASH MEMES WE NEED MORE POTASH MEMES OP WAKE UP YOUR WIFE MISSES YOU AND WE ALL MISS THE POTASH MEMES SPOTIFY IS TEMPORARY AND POTASH IS FOREVER

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    yt-dlp should work great for this, though it is a command line program

    EDIT: yt-dlp does not work for spotify, I was wrong

  • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I switched a while back, but grew frustrated with most of the solutions. Apparently while my music is on Spotify, some of it isn’t in the MusicBrainz database, so automation and tagging/sorting tools just crapped out. The solution of submitting the data just wasn’t work I was willing to put in (the guide on making a submission alone was too much).

    Ultimately I did most everything manually and got a workable solution, but without added variety I lost touch with music and stopped listening all together over time.