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Hi,

I have a playlist with around 5000 songs. What is the best way for me to migrate from Spotify so I can actually have them, unencrypted, on a physical device. I am tired of songs being taken out of my playlist due to licensing issues.

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[–] Carter@feddit.uk 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sign up for a free trial of Deezer and user Deemix-Gui to download your Spotify playlist in flac format.

[–] 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Afaik, free deezer accounts can only pull 128kbps mp3, no flacs.

[–] Carter@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Deezer Premium accounts can download flac, hence the free trial.

[–] 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Carter@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

You also used to be able to use disposable debit cards and email aliases to get unlimited free trials but I think most companies have put a stop to this now.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It says that deezer premium is not available in my country, should I use a VPN to bypass that?

[–] Carter@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can try but you night be required to have a payment method from whichever country you're signing up from.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago

that sucks, guess i have to do some extra work then.

[–] CapnAssHolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what I did a couple months ago. Free trialed deezer, exported the playlist in batches of 500 through songshift. Dled the whole thing.

Although I have to say around 2 to 3% of songs were not found on deezer.

[–] MrShelbs@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I used spotdl to download mine. Though it grabs your music from YouTube, not from Spotify itself (downloads MP3s from YouTube) https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used this too. Btw, YouTube does not serve mp3 files. It serves Opus files and (low quality) m4a files. If you select the mp3 output option with spotdl, it converts them to mp3 and you lose quality. To get the highest quality, you must chose the opus option.

[–] MrShelbs@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info!

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yooo I was thinking of getting rid of Spotify, so ty for sharing this!

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IMO this is the best option.

[–] kniescherz@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the easiest but not quality wise.

[–] MrShelbs@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

For sure. I prefer audio quality but this was easy to use.

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm definitely going to have to do this

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Deezer bot on telegram that takes Spotify playlist links. Just paste it in there and download the whole thing.

[–] CapnAssHolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Anamana@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. They use the premium ARL of an account and through it they access deezers database and download as FLAC.

[–] 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know of any streaming services that provide flac access for free. Deezer and Tidal have flacs, but require subscriptions. If you want flacs without any payments, from what I know at least, you're gonna have to resort to torrents or Usenet.

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not entirely true, you can find Deezer premium arls for free on the internet. That's also what these bots do

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

Check out FMHY's list of Spotify downloaders. That said the first step would be to make the playlist public.

After that you could just use something like Spotiflyer and download them. If you want high quality audio files though you might have to look around a bit

[–] paulie@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago
[–] GuyFi@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

I use website Spotify playlist downloaders, they're not amazing but they'll get the job done