Hi all,

I’ve been scouring around for a tool to do this for some time but haven’t had any luck, hence here I am once again asking for your pirate support.

I’m aware of Cider, but it doesn’t do High-Quality Lossless and the people behind it seem a bit scummy to be honest; the whole Cider 2 thing. Forgive me if I’m wrong, and please correct me.

I’m quite keen on doing this since I’m part of an Apple Family plan, so I don’t pay a penny for the service but still get full access. I’ve got terabytes of storage just waiting to share music via Soulseek.

While I’m at it here, might as well ask if anyone’s got a similar thing for Spotify? It’s the same deal with the whole Family plan thing (It’s a complex situation) so downloading from that service is just as appealing, though AM is preferred because quality.

Sidenote, I don’t want any of these tools that just match the song and rip from YouTube; always gives crap quality.

    • Spectranox@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      That was looking really good, however it doesn’t seem to download into separate sub-directories which is rather annoying. I’ll keep my eye on that though, thanks :D

      • boringbisexualEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        You can get it to do subdirectories by editing the ‘output’ setting in the config file. ex: ‘{artist}/{album}/{song_title}.{ext}’ would give each artist their own directory and further split the songs into their own album directory

        • Spectranox@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Thank you! Seems like Opus doesn’t work though which is a shame. I made an issue on the Github page. I’ll make a script to do that after and preserve the cover art.

          I’ve now got it going with real-time downloads, this is going to take days 😭. However this tool is the best out of a set of compromises so I’ll make the most of it.

          • boringbisexualEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            I’d also recommend setting the “song_archive” option if you haven’t already…especially with real time downloads. Just in case. I’m…unfortunately speaking from experience

            • Spectranox@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              I’ve got it downloading non-real time right now cause I was able to fix the Opus issue (PR is open on Github “Effective libopus support”), so I want to stress-test my changes a bit.

              I’ll switch it back to real-time soon, and I’ll turn on the archive :P.

      • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        When I provide it an artist name, it downloads all of their songs into subfolders with an album name. When I provide it a playlist however, it downloads all songs into one folder. They still have album an artist in the metadata, do I’m pretty sure it can be sorted after the download.

    • Spectranox@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      25·
      9 months ago

      See, torrent availability is more or less directly correlated to the size of the artist / band in question. So when you get someone who’s into some rather niche stuff and has quite a few small bands in their streaming library, torrenting is just not an option.

        • Spectranox@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          10·
          9 months ago

          Yeah, of course I shoot some support over their way. It’s just if I do that it also comes down to the whole ownership thing too, hence the downloading.

    • bblfrnz@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      This thing is getting too popular, I wonder how long it will be able to last.

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    I use soggfy a lot for Spotify, with a premium account this will rip 320 mp3’s for you however I think that is the best you are able to get out of Spotify. You won’t be able to get any lossless rips from Spotify regardless of which method you use as far as I am aware.

      • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Likewise for me, 320 is enough as I’m not playing my music on a proper sound system or the like. In that case I can recommend soggfy for it’s ease of use as it is just a modified Spotify client, you play the music you want and it intercepts the incoming stream to rip the music. Nice and easy.

        I just make playlists and leave it over night to play etc

  • tswiftchair@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    You can check out this module for OrpheusDL. I haven’t personally used that Apple Music module but I have used OrpheusDL and it grabs lossless from other services. Not sure if Atmos changes things though.

  • kirbowo808@kbin.melroy.org
    3·
    9 months ago

    You can’t download FLACs from this site but I’ve been using spotifydown.com for quite sometime now and the audio quality imo has been super solid so far imo. Really has helped me massively in terms of relying less on Spotify since I can just rip the song from there and therefore have my own copy of the tracks/albums etc.

    I’ve also used Psst too as an alternative to the current spotify client on my laptop and that’s been also great too, much more lightweight than the main client, but unfortunately premium is a must if you want to fully use it though ;-;

  • ogginger43@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    I recently got an HDMI splitter and usb-c capture card to start recording TV. HDMI splitter downgrades the HDCP of the firetv stick so the capture card can record it. You might be able do the same with an apple TV as well. Have it play a playlist of music while recording then split the recording into the separate songs and get rid of the video. This isn’t as nice as actually downloading the music but I’m not sure of an easier way using those services.