What's the best tool available on Linux for downloading Spotify albums without DRM?

You can use this but it doesn't really download directly from Spotify. Instead, it takes the song name from Spotify, searches it on YouTube, downloads it from YouTube and then adds metadata from Spotify on the downloaded file.

Shameless self-plug, but I made a Python program that basically does the exact same thing, except it has a web ui. It's called MetaTube and it also supports other metadata providers, such as Musicbrainz and Deezer.

How's the quality?
- Without using the tool, my guess would be not that good (overall if it uses a "video" as the source instead the audio file that YT Music has), but I hope I'm wrong.
Did you copy Christoph Finks project?
- I didn't copy any project.
  
  Although, I learnt Flask (the framework I use for this app) while developing MetaTube, and the project structure is heavily inspired by the excellent Flask guide by Miguel Grinberg. Check him out if you're interested in learning Flask.

There's zspotify which is the only one I know of, but on the rare occasion I want to download an album I just use doubledouble.top

Holy shit, thanks!
One might also could patch something like librespot, so that it automatically saves all songs played as mp4. I heard. From a friend.
Wow. This is great.
How is the quality of the music downloaded from doubledouble?
- I'm far from an audiophile, but stuff fetched from Spotify downloads at 320 kbps. I usually fetch from Deezer, which has 44.1 kHz FLAC.

zotify is the only one I know about that downloads directly from spotify. FOSS of course.

spotify-dl worked great for me

I think I started using this after spotify-ripper stopped working because of some library deprecation, but found it wasn't as good. No album art or ID3 tags, which spotify-ripper did do.

Is there some service that looks at your Spotify or YouTube Music playlist and downloads FLAC versions of those songs from somewhere else.

https://t.me/deezload2bot
- I’m the idiot who uses YouTube Music

This shows up as a virtual device and uses the Spotify client to play into a virtual device. Works great and downloaded many things.

https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify

Ooh, neat! Thank you for sharing and linking this!

What quality are you getting from downloading from Spotify?

Personally, I use Deezer + Deemix to download FLAC for offline play and it's great!

320kbit/s Opus. It's pretty okay, but there's some compression (in the audio sense) going on, so that some songs sound very noticeably worse. Tool for example lost all its, well, toolness.
Do you need a paying account for it to work? I didn't realise all these piracy apps existed for music on Linux. They completely passed me by!
- I think you do need an account (which could be trials) because you have to use an ARL or your credentials to login to Deemix with.
  
  I personally pay for a Deezer family plan and just use offline play mainly for my car.
  
  From what I remember MP3DownloadNet uses the Deezer API to download MP3s and FLAC. I used to collect music with this site before it all the ads but it seems like it's still working.
Thought Deemix was dead? I went looking for an updated version last month and couldn't find anything.
- It is dead, but the app still works.
Don’t

free-mp3-download net
How is quality compared to tidal? Been ripping lossles flacs from it for a while now.

spotDL (not spotify-dl) is a good CLI option.

Spytify but it is for windows only. You can use a vm for it. You got to have a premium acc to acces higher quality though.

Personally i rip straight from tidal. Been thinking of making a few tb available on I2P soon.

How are you ripping from Tidal?
- i send you a DM. Not sure if I am allowed to say it in the sub

I use SpotTube to listen cross platform. But I think it pulls songs from YouTube but uses your Spotify account. You can also download the the songs in your album.

Deezload2bot on telegram You can send spotify links and it will send you the mp3 files

Only mp3, not flac?
- You can chose flac aswell, but its slow

I really thought id see answers solely about soulseekqt lol

Spotiflyer https://spotiflyer.app/ No lossless downloads though (320kbps)

This seems amazing. Let me make sure I understand. I can have a free version of Spotify, add music to some playlist, and then have spotiflyer download the playlist in good quality (320kbps)?

Does it download differential? That is, if I add a new song to a playlist, can it download only that new song?

Edit: When going to the details of the downloaded files, all of them are bitrate "128 kb/s", even though I selected 320 in spotiflyer..
- I think this is where login option comes in, i'll report back if it works differently between logged in vs logged out.
  
  As for differential - yes it can download incremental given you don't move the files / folders ( doesn't have database, but check for file existence in the path )

I don't have answers that haven't already been said, but I'll give a recommendation to Seeker as a means of downloading music outside of streaming apps. It's just a fantastic app for torrenting entire albums from in mp3, ogg, and FLAC format. I've downloaded dozens of gigs of music off it so far and will likely have to grab a terabyte micro SD card for my phone.

It brings a tear of joy to my eye when I see someone promoting soulseek.

Soulseek is an old friend who I can credit most my music taste to.
- Soulseek introduced me to so much new music! It was also the first software I had encountered that would randomize its port on connect -- or at least let you customize it -- to avoid firewalls.

I wish Lemmy had a better search function because this is a perennial topic. This might help:

https://feddit.de/post/5410168

DownOnSpot is my personal favourite so far ^^

I like Spotiflyer and have been using it for probably a year but I think it uses rips from YouTube so a lot of people aren't fans of the quality.

Try https://spotifydown.com/

Make sure you have turned on ad blocker.

I absolutely love how Much easier it is to pirate music over Spotify. Artists don't get shit either way.

yes dont even try to support them, they dindt earn it anyways
- They don't earn anything through Spotify ?

Not exactly Linux , but for android ViMusic works great. It gets from YouTube music. https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic Its available in fdroid.

I'd recommend InnerTune for people that like Material You themed apps.
2nded so hard. By far the best music app I've ever used. So small, and efficient too

on fdroid for Android, there's an app called spotiflyer. you just have to move the songs from your device to wherever you want to store your music but you can rip whole Playlist of yours with it and it works quite well most of the time.

I usually use SlavArt to download MP3s and FLACs from streaming services: https://doubledouble.top

Is there something similar for YouTube Music?

yt-dlp -f bestaudio/best --extract-audio --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail --recode opus --audio-quality 0 $YoutubeLink
- Yes, this post right here. I'm going to save it and use the sh*t out of it.
  
  Thanks!
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Slavart bot

I used to have a command line app that could take a list of Spotify URLs, your credentials and allowed you to bulk download everything directly from Spotify. In my opinion the tools that use Youtube are worthless because they rarely work for the things I want. But I forgot the name of that tool and have been desperately looking for it every since, without success. This thread prompted me to look again and I found https://github.com/casualsnek/onthespot which does basically the same, but with a GUI. So far it works fine.

Try DownOnSpot.

I use a Telegram bot called https://t.me/spotify_down_bot

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Yo may want to try OnTheSpot

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