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.
I’ve also stumbled upon Spotizerr but i’ve had so much problems with it. Usually only getting around 75% of my playlists synced.
I now use onthespot and manually download my playlists once a week. Onthespot also saves a .m3u8 playlist file with absolute paths of the saved music. That way i can just chuck those playlists straigh into my jellyfin and be done.
onthespot needs some tweaking to get it working right. Usually wait 15 seconds between downloads and after around 100 downloaded songs it starts to fail every other song.
I just let it run through and the start the download process for the whole playlist again - it skips all already existing ones and after two or three runs i have everything updated again.
I had zero issues with Spotizerr, maybe because i have premium account? Anyway, this is how i set it up and installed: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aspotizerr in case it owuld be usefull for somebody.
Spotizerr create the .m3u file too and Navidrome picked it up immediately, very neat.
i also have a spotify premium account so that can’t be the issue.
Well - happy for you that it works as you want it to. I might give it another shot, maybe i had a bad installation or a flaky version
It worked perfectly on my playlist. It seems that if you want to do “bulk” download of entire artists it will hit some issues, but i guess it’s due to spotofy throttling or limiting, in any case it’s working pretyt nicely.