I’ve been using either Spotifymate or doubledouble to automatically plug in spotify playlists and have all the tunes downloaded.

Doubledouble tends to have issues with regionlocking and will freeze a good bit of the way through processing certain playlists, so I’ve found it less than reliable.

Spotifymate is way more reliable, but when you plug in the link to the playlist, you have to download each song individually. This is not a problem with small playlists, but when you come across larger playlists it makes it a very tedious task. I may just be stupid, but I don’t seem to see a way to download the whole playlist with one click.

Anybody know if its possible or should I look for other solutions? I should also add that I would be more than happy to use some sort of software that automatically makes spotify playlists into youtube playlists so that I can download them from youtube directly with jdownloader if that is an option, I just didn’t see that anywhere.

Thanks in advance!

  • darcmage@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using spotDL with Kid3 to automate downloading/sorting spotify playlists for a long time now without issues. Not as easy as a one click solution but very reliable. Maybe someone else can chime in with something easier to use.

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    Upvoting because I’m also curious about backing up my spotify library. In a world of advancing enshitification of services on every front, it’s better to be prepared.

  • YoMismo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m using Deemix for that, unless there’s a specific track that doesn’t exist on Deezer servers the whole playlist should be downloaded.

  • Trung0246@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Use DownOnSpot to directly download from spotify server, and since it is command-line based it can be automated. Although you need to compile the binary yourself and some skill on using shell script. No idea if it can bypass region lock (maybe VPN will works?).

    • BrandoCalrissian9229@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I will look into this. The idea of having to do coding scares me, as I am not the best with it, but I have tinkered around with it before. Thanks for the suggestion!

  • Vaggumon@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hey, just wanted to slightly highjack your post to ask, Is there a way to do this with YouTube Music? I was looking the other day and I know I can download YouTube video to mp3 one at a time, but I was trying to find a way to download whole playlists from YTM. Saw some shady looking software that wanted $30 or so but couldn’t find if it was legit or not.

    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      You want yt-dlp. It’s a command line app, but it’s pretty simple to use. For example, to download a whole playlist to best quality audio, regardless of if the main URL is pointing to a video or playlist, you can do

      yt-dlp --yes-playlist -x <url>

      If you specifically want mp3 format, you could do

      yt-dlp --yes-playlist -x --audio-format mp3 <url>

    • BrandoCalrissian9229@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      hey sorry if other people have already answered this, but you can usually use jdownloader to rip audio straight out of youtube. I’ve been doing that for ages, but sometimes the playlists I want to rip have way more tunes than I want to rip and the quality is all over the place so I want more consistency. It works really well though if you want to curate your own youtube playlists and then rip them.

      It should be noted that this also works with video in youtube too- you can rip your favorite videos in their entirety