I would like to move away from using spotify for music. Are there any torrenting sites where I can torrent music with high quality audio (~320kbps) tagged properly?

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[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

slsk-batchdl is pretty powerful too, if you're not afraid of a little command line

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

yup! I used that to pull my playlists from spotify and youtube to download my songs on soulseek. very powerful tool that worked great. just let it run on my server overnight and had all my songs by the morning.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Offtopic follow-up question:
How do I prevent it from aborting when I launch it through SSH and want to quit the client?

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

I used screen. Just start a screen session for it like "music-downloads" and then you can quit the session and exit out OR install a DE like XFCE on your server and then use something like xfreerdp to remote desktop in, run the script in a terminal on the server, then just close your xfreerdp.

I first used screen to download everything but then decided to install XFCE and Nicotine+ and just leave it up so people can download from my library also.

[–] bktheman@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

Looks like nohup, screen, or tmux are good options.

I've used screen before, it worked well. Though I've never used it to download stuff, it should work the same

[–] baconbacksandwich@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I would love to do this from Spotify. Can you share any code snippets or examples?

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

this was the script I used to download my youtube playlist, you can modify it to do spotify also:

#!/bin/bash  

PLAYLIST_URL="$1"  

if [ -z "$PLAYLIST_URL" ]; then  
    echo "Usage: $0 <youtube_playlist_url>"  
    exit 1  
fi  

# Log file with timestamp  
LOG_FILE="$HOME/music-downloads/download_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).log"  

echo "Starting download at $(date)" | tee "$LOG_FILE"  
echo "Playlist: $PLAYLIST_URL" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
echo "----------------------------------------" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  

# Run sldl with YouTube playlist  
sldl "$PLAYLIST_URL" --yt-dlp 2>&1 | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  

echo "----------------------------------------" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
echo "Download completed at $(date)" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"

I just ran this in a screen session. You don't have to log everything but I did it so I could check to see what songs weren't on soulseek from my playlist.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Look at the documentation on the Github-page. It looks difficult but you only need a few options and they give you examples as well.