On a related note, the single best resource for downloading free music, Free-MP3-Download.net, just got shut down. They were around for almost 2 decades and had a pretty much limitless catalogue of songs and albums that you could get in MP3 and FLAC format. I still have thousands of files that I got from that site, but it looks like the music industry finally managed to put a stop to it.
Remember, if you don't really own it, then piracy isn't really stealing.
Best to just use yt-dlp and download music from youtube.
It's not actually hard to scrape from spotify or apple music or anything using a web interface and linux. I would post code to do it, but it's probably more trouble than it's worth. Pretty much every song is on youtube anyway, it's just a bit harder to save a whole album.
Even using a 320 kbps format to download mp3s from YouTube, the quality is just shit. That's why I prefer FLAC files, but even 320 mp3s from albums are better quality. YouTube compresses too much of the original audio during upload.
Seems youtube maxes out at like 130k opus, but on the plus side in ten years you'll hardly be able to tell the difference between that and a live performance.
On a related note, the single best resource for downloading free music, Free-MP3-Download.net, just got shut down. They were around for almost 2 decades and had a pretty much limitless catalogue of songs and albums that you could get in MP3 and FLAC format. I still have thousands of files that I got from that site, but it looks like the music industry finally managed to put a stop to it.
Remember, if you don't really own it, then piracy isn't really stealing.
Best to just use yt-dlp and download music from youtube.
It's not actually hard to scrape from spotify or apple music or anything using a web interface and linux. I would post code to do it, but it's probably more trouble than it's worth. Pretty much every song is on youtube anyway, it's just a bit harder to save a whole album.
Even using a 320 kbps format to download mp3s from YouTube, the quality is just shit. That's why I prefer FLAC files, but even 320 mp3s from albums are better quality. YouTube compresses too much of the original audio during upload.
Seems youtube maxes out at like 130k opus, but on the plus side in ten years you'll hardly be able to tell the difference between that and a live performance.