I like to use 7digital, just buy yourself a flac file
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
217 points (97.0% liked)
196
17312 readers
1450 users here now
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
Other rules
Behavior rules:
- No bigotry (transphobia, racism, etc…)
- No genocide denial
- No support for authoritarian behaviour (incl. Tankies)
- No namecalling
- Accounts from lemmygrad.ml, threads.net, or hexbear.net are held to higher standards
- Other things seen as cleary bad
Posting rules:
- No AI generated content (DALL-E etc…)
- No advertisements
- No gore / violence
- Mutual aid posts require verification from the mods first
NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.
Other 196's:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Got GBs of music obtained with youtube-dl and yt-dlp over the years.
Well, if you like the underwater quality of extreme compression...
Lucida.to has worked great, you can download from Spotify, Tidal and some others with the best quality they offer.
Edit: I think they have removed Spotify downloads, no option for that.
What witchcraft is this?
Yeah I got quality to think about
Yt-dlp usually rips the best quality possible from the source. Going to a private tracker won't magically make quality better than where the artist posted their music. Or do you think yt-dlp only works on YouTube? (You would be wrong about that as well)
Which music library can it rip from? Last I checked it couldn't do spotify's due to the heavy DRM they use. All the tools you find online either do an audio out rip-and-reencode (lossy though minimally so) or more likely "look up on YouTube Music and download" which is objectively going to yield worse audio quality (though whether that matters for one's usecase is very dependent on hardware and wetware specifics). The bigger problem with blind YouTube music rips is you're occasionally going to end up with intros/outros and random diegetic noises from music videos.
Yt-dlp takes urls as an input, not libraries. It can rip from SoundCloud, Bandcamp, etc. Often places where small artists are uploading in the highest quality.
Yeah, most of the music I want isn't on those platforms. Honestly, I tried torrenting music for a while but with the variety I wanted, my disk speed was too slow for my torrent client to keep up. Now I just suck it up and pay for Tidal.
I am well aware but any artist that is signed to a large-ish label is unlikely to publish on bandcamp, much less soundcloud. There aren't 50 ways to pirate mainstream music, it's either the old-school way or ripping off youtube. Or so a friend told me.
And any artists that do have a bandcamp I would feel bad about downloading their music without paying for it, these guys usually aren't T-Swift rich...
You won’t convince me to give up my RED account
I'm just tryna throw mp3s on my phone. No I dont want any flac I'm being kind out here.
Lidarr so easy to set up though. And gosh I wish I started listening to full albums sooner, cherry picking the radio singles really leaves out a lot of bangers
i believe there is a way of using lidarr with yt dlp called lidatube, used it for a bit but have abandoned it and have lidarr prioritize usenet over other sources
Oh that's cool, thank you! I have a similar setup now, very happy with it 😃
Yeah, same. All of the music I listen to is on YouTube so I only need yt-dlp.
Well, different use-cases, both very nice.
And for Android, there's a wrapper called YTDLnis, which is very good.
You can share it playlists, or YT music albums, and other things probably.
IzzyOnDroid: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.deniscerri.ytdl