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[–] 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Just use yt-dlp instead of relying on websites that shove ads in your face and may do what ever they want to the files you're downloading?

[–] bblfrnz@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The worst ever suggestion and unfortunately the most upvoted. Do not ever download music from youtube, free-mp3-download was a front-end for deezer with flacs and 320 kbps mp3 and music on youtube is only about 160 kbps, that's kinda okay for streaming but absolutely ridiculous if you want to download and keep it.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 12 points 1 year ago

You can use yt-dlp to download from other website, not only on YouTube.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You can tell the difference between 320kbps and 160kbps in a blind test?

If you can tell anything above 160 you're in a select minority (and using great equipment). Most people will never have any use for 320.

[–] sus@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Youtube actually uses 128kbps opus, which should be significantly better than 160kbps mp3

but the real problem is that you can't know what quality the uploader used, it all gets recompressed by youtube.

[–] silent_squirrel@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

It was possible to download lossless FLAC files (they got them straight from Deezer) though, so higher quality than anything downloaded from Youtube etc.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

YouTube is absolutely unacceptable quality. The difference is clearly audible even on $5 earbuds. I feel sorry for your ears if you don't hear the difference, but the vast majority of those who care enough to download music will be able to tell the difference.

I personally pay for Deezer HiFi and save the FLACs locally. Friends mostly do the same with Tidal, but both work well for this purpose.

If you want to find FLACs without paying for a service you can check out rutracker. It has torrents for discographies from a lot of famous artists. Alternatively, you could find a stolen account for one of the previously mentioned services, but that goes too far for my morals because you're hurting a normal person with a hacked account.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Despite all the naysayers in the comments, this is the correct answer. No ad-riddled websites, no weird guis. just "yt-dlp < url of whatever you want to rip >" in bash.

Lots of people responding to this need to acquaint themselves with the raw power of yt-dlp. It isn't just for YouTube. You can rip Deezer and other streaming audio services. You can rip pretty much any video site. It even takes RSS and M3U8 links and will rip live streams.

[–] authed@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

On Android I use Newpipe for downloading audio-only.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deemix works great for flac or 320kbps mp3, it's really easy to get ARI codes for free

[–] hasty3827@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you like cli try streamrip on github. Then you can download from deezer, qobuz, or tidal. Like you said, there lots of free arl for those online.

A much simpler solution is using doubledouble for those not as tech savvy.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 12 points 1 year ago

Is that a real Deezloader website? That website looks shady af.

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deezer sent out a mail that they are closing the free service so it may not work anymore (without a paid Deezer account)

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Subbing for a month, then downloading Gigabytes of properly tagged FLACs doesn't sound too bad tbh

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] spiderman@ani.social 10 points 1 year ago

This guide is enough for all of your needs.

[–] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a way to download whole playlists in best quality?