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I recently began de-corpoing my life, and spotify is my most recent cancellation after I was a premium subscriber since soon after its launch.
Took a bit of effort to convert my library, but I found a useful app to automate the process. And now I have my library back, offline and on my devices forever and for free.
It's actually kind of empowering, reclaiming your life from subscription hell and corporate voyeurism.
This is one of those things that I dream of doing one of these days. I'd love to have a massive media library stored locally, so that I'm not chained to streaming services.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
Also, Amazon Music sells DRM-free MP3 files, if you don't feel like sailing.
Or just buy on Bandcamp if the artist is on there. Support artists really directly (they get 85-90% of what you pay for an item) and you usually get a royalty free lossless download as well as subscription-less streaming.
Hope recent dealings doesn't fuck up this absolute gem of a site.
I was prepared for that to go the other way.
*"This is one of those things that I dream of doing one of these days"
Don't tell me you've never dreamed of being an entertainment industry leech!
Do you mind sharing any details on your process / tools?
I did a bit of web searching and found spotDL on github, you can give it Spotify playlists to convert and it will search them on YouTube/YouTube music, and output them as local files.
Includes metadata and can output in different formats too. It works great about 99% of the time, though you sometimes need to search manually for individual songs it couldn't match somehow. But that were about a dozen tracks out of over 4k for me.
If you are interested in the other things I did/found aside from music feel free to ask
Is the quality of the YouTube rips good?
I imagine it's not the best, but Spotify's isn't great either
I'm not an audiophile or anything, but on my in ears it sounds fine to me. Though I only made mp3s so far, but iirc it can do flac too. I'd imagine those have better quality
Thanks for sharing!
Just today I was listening to a Tidal Playlist amongst friends and the whole thing seized up and just stopped playing music all together when it ran into a song on the Playlist that apparently Tidal lost the rights to. Really frustrating when your music library is in flux at the whim of corporate dealings.
Dude what is the app?? I've been looking for exactly this.
Further down:
https://lemmy.zip/comment/9758344
Amazing thank you!
After you've done so, if you have interest in hosting your own music server, have a look at Navidrome.
I was wondering if there was some way to do exactly that earlier - excellent & many thanks friend
You got it. Come back to me if you have a hard time finding a good android client. There are a lot of mediocre ones. For IOS I don't know...
For me, this is just a place I knew to never go. The writing was on the wall when Warcraft 2/3 became World of Warcraft, one of the first subscription based game.
I'd already been pirating software, music, and games by then and just, stayed on that path. Never so much as used Netflix or Spotify.