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.
zotify.xyz can rip premium quality directly from spotify if you provide it with premium account credentials.
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
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.
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.
Yeah I'm aware of Spotify's 320k MP3 cap, but for the equipment I've got that's fine. Thanks :)
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
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.
Id like to do the same, but also, not sure about doing it on an iPhone, and I haven’t “pirated” anything but books.
Seems like most of the tools I'm finding are CLIs, so iPhones or just phones in general are definitely a no-go I'm afraid.
If you listen to popular artists, you could try Soulseek. Not sure on how easy it is to access it on an iPhone though, I've never owned any Apple devices since I went off them at a young age so I'm really firing off into the dark.
