One of my favourite applications. I stopped paying for spotify and just use this to get music these days. Everything gets uploaded to youtube anyways.

[–] jecht360@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Downloading music from YouTube will get you MP3s, but they will have gone through the YT compression algorithms.

Use Deemix instead. Downloads MP3s straight from the Deezer servers with all metadata and album art.

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lucida.to would also be a pretty good choice, you can choose to download from either Deezer, Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify, Deezer on Amazon Music.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then seed it on Soulseek as a webrip

[–] Agret@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No you have to edit the file for CD metadata and convert it to flac so you can pretend it was ripped from a CD, as is P2P file sharing tradition. Bonus pts if you put it through some filter to introduce a bunch of noise into the audio. Then ask in chat how you can convert a 128kbps mp3 to flac to increase the quality. Priceless.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Discontinued in 2022 https://archive.org/details/deemix

[–] jecht360@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're right, but it does still work.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Ah. Well that's what matters.

[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Deemix? More like Mix Deez Nuts!

I'm sorry.

[–] jecht360@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That's okay, it had to be done.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Does it automatically grab things like metadata (author, cover art, etc.) for you? And if it requires a flag, do you know it?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

I don't bother personally for the most part but it seems like you can do it via --embed-metadata, --parse-metadata, and --embed-thumbnail.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

It’s very automatic with just pointing it at the media’s URL, but also highly configurable if you want.

[–] prayer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless the artist only posts on YouTube, try soulseek. Most files have metadata already included, and if they don't, you can just download from another user.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

Soulseek. Added to my notes. Will check it out, thanks

[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

May I suggest SpotDL specifically for Spotify: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader

[–] Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does it work anymore? I've been getting the 500 error while trying to use it for a couple of months non stop.

[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been using it recently without many issues

[–] Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Huh. Wonder why its so finicky. Oh well, maybe I'll give it another go in the future.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

For songs with metadata I recommend ytmdl