I often used this site to download flac songs that I was unable to find on SLSK or other torrents. Is there an alternative to this site that anyone knows of. It will be missed.

      • TheProtector0034@feddit.nlEnglish
        17·
        9 months ago

        Just make a free account on Deezer, get the link of the song or album and paste it on the the doubletop website.

        • rolandtb303@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          you can also search for the song on a search engine and just type deezer at the end of it, then get the link that way.

    • harald_im_netz@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Such a great tool, but I would love to just download in MP3 320, as FLAC is overkill for a music collection, and eats storage for breakfast :-( Is there something similar for MP3 320?

      • TheProtector0034@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Yes, get the Spotify link of a song, playlist or album. Then go to the options of doubledouble top, choose for MP3 320kpbs in the Spotify section.

        https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/709b88a7-5101-4d87-8fb9-d8d2301d20a8.jpeg

      • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        If you learn how an encoder works you can compress the FLAC into whatever format you prefer yourself. I highly recommend 256kbps AAC using Apple’s encoder (specifically that encoder, other AAC encoders are much worse) but you can also do VBR MP3 in any bitrate you want. Plus, if you keep the FLACs in archive, you can re-compress them later to a better format if one is developed.

        • harald_im_netz@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Hey, thank you for the advice. I’m aware of the function of an encoder, and use ffmpeg to re-encode the files from .flac to .mp3. But I was looking for a “more comfortable” way.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    413·
    9 months ago

    Crap.
    But it already enshittified slightly. It had ad-block blocking and hostile tracking BS added recently. You’d have to manually unclick each vendor for the “Genuine interest” section which would take like 2 minutes as you had to click it one-by-one.
    Could have just kept the ads as they were and added a donation button.

    Anyway, I’ve also been using http://flacmusicfinder.com/ as well. However, this one just links to user-added content, so the quality may vary. I recommend using Spek to check the FLACs.
    It’s not as nice to navigate, but oh well, you only download every song once anyway.

    • Blxter@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      Yea one day when I tried it said I had to disable my ad blocker. So I tried with Firefox on my phone with ad block and it worked like a week later it was working on desktop again.

    • count0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      62·
      9 months ago

      For the vendor (non-)consent thing - Consent-O-Matic provides an appropriate framework.

      (Whether such a side would even care about the preference/consent is another matter entirely - I’d suggest a throwaway browser identity and cookie auto delete for a start, anyway.)

      Creating rules has a bit of a learning curve the first three or seven times, but I find that more interesting to do than go through a hostile/dark pattern cookie dialog or such the third time.

      Hm, maybe the appropriate functionality from CoM could be re-wrapped as a TamperMonkey module…

      Web automation for the masses 😱

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if they went after an orphanage in Ethiopia for printing out a picture of Mario.

  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    218·
    9 months ago

    Just want to point out that you can download audio from a Youtube video using yt-dlp and the following options:

    -x, --extract-audio                               Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and
                                                  ffprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT                             Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently
                                                  supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus,
                                                  vorbis, wav). You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax
                                                  as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY                           Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with
                                                  -x. Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a
                                                  specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)

    You might have to use a tool to re-do the tags, but that’s pretty easy to do. Edit: also want to point out that yt-dlp also works with a number of other sites besides Youtube.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      This is a method I use regularly but I don’t think you’re going to obtain any lossless content from youtube.

    • MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      Youtube audio quality is such crap though. Whenever I try pirating music via youtube there’s never a bass channel. I have a good stereo system in my car so that’s not acceptable.

      • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        51·
        9 months ago

        I get that, but if it’s the only place something exists, it might be your only option and I was just tossing it out there so people knew it was available.

    • biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.workEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I suggest trying out this YouTube Music app. You can install a plugin from the app that will use yt-dlp and download from YouTube Music which gets you slightly better audio quality at 256kbps vs downloading from a YouTube video.

    • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It’s good to know how to rip the opus without reencoding from YouTube but please don’t use this as your primary source of music

  • Hedlosa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    If you’re on Linux try zotify, amazingly easy to use, straight from the source, and fast!

    Quick disclaimer: some people report their accounts being banned, but I have personally downloaded 6500+ songs and I have been fine as well as plenty of others with similar numbers. If you want to play it safe, you can download really slowly at 1x speed and Spotify can’t tell the difference between downloading and playing media.

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      That’s not gonna help if he’s looking for hard to find track as flacs though.

    • ledifrellim@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Is there a list of commands for noobs to use, I installed but dont know what to do. Like to change quality, download directory and such. Thanks

      • Hedlosa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        '$ ’ indicates a new command (pressing enter) do not type in the space when doing command, only for legibility here.

        First type in zotify, in which you can log in, if you don’t care about 320kbps music please feel free to make a new Spotify account for this purpose, as if the (very very low) chance it gets banned who cares, idk if 10minutemail works with Spotify.

        To search and download something:

        $ zotify

        $ Keyword for song, album, artist name (eg. The Dark Side of The Moon)

        $ number of your selection, top ten of each are shown with a number next, just enter the number and enter

        To Download an album, playlist, etc straight up

        Copy link of playlist, album, etc in Spotify

        $ zotify “paste link here”

        It’s that easy, should just straight up download

        Options; use these by just adding them into the first zotify command after the word ‘zotify’, change values to whatever you want it to do

        –download-lyrics=false : does not download the .lrc file and therefore no lyric metadata

        –download-format=mp3 : sets download format to mp3, can change to flac, ogg, vorbis, opus (what I use), etc

        –download-quality=very_high : if singed in on a premium account, the download quality will be 320kpbs, this should automatically happen, set to high, medium, etc to use free tier listening quality

        zotify -l : stands for liked, simply downloads all songs the user has liked

        These can all be used in the one command, by just stating one after the other eg:

        zotify -l --download-lyrics=false --download-format=mp3 --download-quality=high

        If any of this is wrong or does not make sense feel free to let me know and I will clarify, this was made at 4am after cleaning up dog shit :)

        E:oh I don’t remember how to change directory, I just download them cut and paste to new one, takes 2min even for 2000 song playlists if you have an SSD for me at least

    • dj_brevet@mstdn.dk
      1·
      9 months ago

      @Hedlosa @Blxter if you’re a deezer user there’s a downloading program called deemix which is pretty good - but coded with electron so contains the trojan horse of all of chrome browser’s code (I’ve been told, not a programmer just passing on information)

  • LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    9 months ago

    I just literally downloaded the newest single of Tom MacDonald and came back after a few hours and this happened. It was a good run.

      • clearleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        I’ve never seen that abbreviation for it before. What you see in search results depends on who’s accounts are online so keep checking every once in a while. My other suggestion is if you use qbittorrent, it actually has a torrent search that I think is disabled for legal disability or something.