What's the best way to rip music off Spotify so that I can store it on my HDD?
As per title.
New releases especially are quite hard to find on other clients or p2p resources; what's the best way to get them from the source so that I can share them back?
Huh, wasn't aware of that one! Looks like it works in a similar way, so should be good. Has a graphical user interface, too, so more approachable. Thanks!
According to the readme it downloads the songs from youtube or other sources and then adds metadata after reencoding. This means tracks might include unwanted audio from a yt music video.
But I also used tools like this in the past, they work great.
xManager for Android.
For downloading songs in my Spotify playlist, I use Spowlo for Android. It downloads songs at the specified quality (I choose 320 kbps and but you can download even in FLAC; I chose FLAC for some songs). So far, it has been able to download all my 1910 songs from my personal playlist.
You can try Deemix but the project Is dead but it still works it takes Spotify Playlist finds the songs on deezer and downloads it what sometimes gives you higher quality music then Spotify
I found this tool https://www.sidify.de/ a while ago.
They have a paid solution, which you could pirate a crack for on a site of your choice.
Maybe not the best solution, but it downloads the Tracks/Playlists/Albums by recording the audio and adding all the metadata.