this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2025
400 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

77870 readers
4395 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
400
Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
submitted 2 days ago by JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
94 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is the one thing on Spotify I can’t get elsewhere. Would be nice to have a non transcode copy.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4emoC6C9fCDkWPdTuxN9an

…Like Cologne (Spotify Exclusive)
Queens of the Stone Age
2013 • 3 songs • 14 min 5 sec

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

try OnTheSpot.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it circumvent the drm, or does it re-encode decompressed audio?

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

don't ask me, I don't know specifically how it works. I just know with a premium spotify account it'll give you 320kbps mp3s, without, you're limited to 128kbps. Sets the album artwork and the tags automatically, it's great.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly, Spotify streams ogg vorbis—not mp3, so that would be a transcode.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

well, there is an option for "raw media download", so I'm assuming turning that on will get you the .ogg files you seek if that's important to you. I honestly don't care that much as 320kbps .mp3s sound as good as anything else to me.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Second. I've built most of my library from this and soulseek over the last few years.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, since this archive says it contains the original ogg @160kbps for all artists with a popularity >0, it'll be in this collection. Your wait may be over soon.