👀👀spotify bad; spotube good

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2844529

👀👀spotify bad; spotube good - Divisions by zero

Spotube link [https://www.f-droid.org/packages/oss.krtirtho.spotube/]

free-mp3-download.net (but don’t forget to backup your music collection)

Edit: Unlike what the website name suggests, it allows you to download FLACs, and not just MP3s. These come from Deezer HiFi.

What is its source? Torrents in background?
From what I could find, Deezer using free trial Deezer HiFi accounts.

Sadly not.

“utilizing Spotify’s data API and YouTube (or Piped.video) as an audio source”

So they just save the lower resolution YouTube audio into FLAC?

No. Very much no. I wonder where he found that.
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But I did find a few that clearly might have been uploaded to Deezer as 320K MP3s with their 20.5kHz cut-off, but based on replies on Reddit, it is sometimes just mastered that way, “Often for dumb reasons”. However, sometimes it shows FLAC download unavailable for certain few songs, so maybe it really was just different mastering in those cases.

Ah that’s good, thanks for explaining!