Hi fellow selfhosters!

i pay (i know, i know) for Spotify Premium and i would like to progressively build my self-hosted music collection leveraging the fact that i am a paying customer and i would hate if the pull songs under my rug over time.

Any good self-hostable approach here? Ideally, the flow would be:

  • I listen to spotify on my mobile devices, add songs to playlists and such
  • my self-host setup syncs those playlists
  • … and download the songs using my paid for premium account from spotify itself
  • Doean’t really needs to be web-based, i can access my server anbd run anything CLI based or even plain old GUI (linux).

I don’t want fake solutions that use Google Music or Deezer to download, i pay spotify and expect somehow to be able to download 320Kbps music from it.

The overall process can be manual, but better automated.

I already have lidarr, but it’s basically impossible to download the same music from it, at least not the music i listen to.

A viable workaround could be something that builds by spotify playlists using what music i have downloaded with lidarr, maybe notifying me what is missing…

EDIT: somebody pointed out this is against Spotify TOS. Anyway i found a solution using Spotizerr, which is a self-hosted web app that does exactly what i was looking for. You still need a paid spotify account unless you want to download low-res from Deezer.

  • izoslav@programming.devEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, so, Spotify sub is just a license to listen to the music provided by Spotify and using their services to do so. You don’t have rights to the music itself, downloading it and bypassing DRMs is breaking ToS. Even if you downloaded the music, self-hosted it, etc, and you stop paying your sub, you’re just pirating the music.

    My recommendation, and what I also do: Navidrome to host, Amperfy mobile app for playback (offline mode supported), and buy music directly from artists whenever possible.

    • ShimitarOPAEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I do have navidrome and use Symphony (for which i have also paid, because it’s worth it), but i miss the spotify playlists and ease to use them. I would like to be able to download those in an easy way.