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I have a relatively large collection of songs I downloaded from YouTube, one-by-one, on my Android phone. I would like to download a lot more of the songs I like, with correct metadata and without having to manually edit the album cover art, artist, and more, on my Windows PC.

(Notes: I'd be ok with running another tool that allows altering many files, like Musicbrainz Picard. Looking at https://rentry.co/FMHYAudio/#audio-ripping, it seems I might've answered my own question, but I'm unsure. Do you know of better methods?)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Lol nobody knows the deezload2bot on telegram. You can paste spotify playlist links and download a zip or all songs in mp3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

SpotDL is pretty good, takes Spotify playlists/links and downloads from YouTube music including metadata.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

To download from spotify: zotify

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Deemix and search for an ARL and you can download easily

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

onthespot works well

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Soulseek is good. It's a peer-to-peer sharing service, so you can just choose who to download from rather than waiting in a queue. You can find things in FLAC if you want it, or in various lossy qualities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Until you hit a wall looking for some indie stuff and the only guy you find asks you for money lol.

But besides a couple of those, soulseek's great, and usually people there try to go for quality, or at the very least will have the right metadata. If not, there's a couple deezer downloaders on github that work really good, and an older one hosted in the internet archive I believe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Find the albums you want to download on Tidal, copy the album URL, and paste it here: https://doubledouble.top/

You'll get the correct metadata, including lyrics!
But sure, there are drawbacks. Not that many people can download music at once, so you get this:

Don't worry, it's usually not stuck, but that number just won't update.

Alternatively, look at Soulseek. A P2P music sharing platform.

For both cases, I recommend checking the files with Spek. It's possible someone even took a 160kbps MP3 and converted it to 24-bit 192kHz FLAC.
You'll need to find how the spectrum looks for different lossy codecs at different bitrates to approximately see what you're looking for (specific cut-off frequencies and shelving). And sometimes it may be confusing due to how the songs are mastered.
You decide if you care. Probably not since you were ripping songs from YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Doubledouble is down for a few days now without update on the telegram channel tho

edit: nvm is back up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I use Soulseek then Picard. It seems to work well enough. I’m just starting to use filters like minimum bitrate or files in a folder, if you want to make sure you’re getting the whole album.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This has been my go to combined with a Usenet subscription.