Hi fellow sailor!

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
  • Doesn’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…

(note: this is a cross post, i originally posted in selfhosters, but tought might be more fitting here)

EDIT: it seems i found a solution. Using Spotizerr let’s you download music using spotify directly. I have setup it, linked to spitify (and not to Deezer, to be sure) and it seems that’s downloading hi-res OGG files directly from spotify! Will write a wiki page on how i did it later on.

EDIT 2: here is my wiki page on the subject: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aspotizerr

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Use tunemymusic to export playlist and import into deezer/tidal or use songdata.io to convert spotify urls to deezer/tidal urls then use streamrip

    https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

    Supports qobuz, tidal, deezer, soundcloud

    More labor intensive but you’ll get higher quality files this way (can get 16 bit 44.1khz or even 96khz 24bit if you have premium tidal and it’s available for the song although that’s generally way overkill)

    There’s probably ways to rip directly from spotify but in my experience a lot of apps that claim they can rip at the highest quality of the network don’t actually do it. They’ll export a 320mp3 or flac or whatever but they really transcode a lower bitrate file. If that doesn’t matter to you then stuff like notecable works (never tested for spotify but for apple music it def transcodes lossless).

    Depends on what your use is for. If it’s strictly personal and you don’t care about lossless audio then whatever. If you plan to upload to red or something and it’s a notable album someone will probably recognize it’s a transcode at some point. Whatever method you use there’s a thread there where you can post spectrals to check before you upload and it can save you grief.

    That said I would like to know a way to get top quality from spotify. There is a single album that is only on spotify and no other streaming platforms and as far as I can tell no one has ripped it. If you or I figure it out you should rip https://open.spotify.com/album/1kQYg5es8a8Q1tfTgiH3TV . Great album and I don’t have premium. I have some of the singles on vinyl

    • ShimitarOPAEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Spotizerr seems to be working! Updated OP.

  • NightFantom@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Your writeup on spotizer seems to imply that they can just steal your credentials, is that correct? Not that it should matter much if you’re doing this to stop with spotify afterwards, but still feels icky…

    • ShimitarOPAEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      What? Where did you implied that? And “who” are “they”? It’s all open source stuff.

  • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Use soundiiz or a similar service to export your library to a csv or text file, then you can use any number or services like frayr, streamrip, yt-dlp or tidal-dl to download them all.

    Lidarr extended scripts also works well for this. https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts/blob/main/lidarr/readme.md

    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.

    Unfortunately thats all youll find because spotify doesnt allow direct downloading unlike every other music streaming service.

    • ShimitarOPAEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Spotizerr seems to be working! Updated OP.

      • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Oh nice find! Ive only seen ones that download metadata from spotify and source the actual audio from another source. Glad you found what you wanted.

        • ShimitarOPAEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Being using it since this morning (yeah long time…) but so far, pretty positive.

    • ShimitarOPAEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Spotizerr seems to be working! Updated OP.

    • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      There’s a fork of Zotify that fixes the authentication issues. Beyond that, don’t try for a mass download but limit the speed and number at a time. Works great.