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I never used spotify and will never use but let me just congrat you for your site that uses no crap of google or ads. It is that rare to see this. HN is another decent on, but 99% of web sites are a privacy and malware nightmare.
So is this piracy then? Don't me me wrong. I think piracy is a moral imperative, but I'm curious how far this sits in the gray area.
this is magic. hope Spotify doesn't spot it and stop it!
the project mentions the github but I can't seem to find it, any links?
the github mentions tidal integrations. i hope they are adding random delays between each download or that user is gonna get their account auto deleted by tidal.
> couldn't load artist — Spotify API is temporarily unavailable
i guess we’re doing piracy now
It never stopped. And it was always in the moral right. As such it is not just justifiable, but I would say necessary.
> 03 audio sourced from the web

Where? How do I know you're not pulling from some shady repository?

lmao it's just tidal > deezer > yt

i've added an update comment to this post

How good is your opsec?
op here, happy to chat about this, feel free to reach out (me@yoinkify.com)
As long as companies employ morally vacuous techniques to strip us of our fundamental freedoms, I say, copyright should be completely disregarded by the global citizenry as dead law. The AI labs have set the precedent here.

Why should big companies get to have rights and freedoms when such things aren't afforded to us? Long live piracy. May our spirits never falter.

Everything is paid nowadays, which makes it harder for a user to access something. Great solution.
It doesn't work for some alnum/song however.
hi! i'm so sorry for the inconvenience. which album/song? i'm happy to look into it. you can also report it through the feedback form on the site.
This is comically blatant. Tell law enforcement you are downloading these tracks to train AI and you're safe.
Seems to have gotten hugged to death.
Very cool, but tried pasting a few playlists and it never fetched more than 95/98 tracks (playlist had 100+ tracks in it). I'd be interested in the open source version, so I could run it locally on cron.
Search for "Spotizerr Git". You'll need a premium for downloading flac quality though.
hi! yeah during that time i was having issues with the spotify api, but it should be working more reliably now. if you run into anything feel free to reach out via the feedback form on the site.

the self-hosted version has been improved a lot recently — works out of the box with zero config now. flac requires deezer or tidal credentials for now, but i'm working on a proxy solution so self-hosters can get lossless without needing their own subscriptions.

Nice. Is there something similar for Youtube Music Premium?
youtube links actually work; yoink resolves the song and pulls audio from the best available source (same as spotify links) but its a bit less reliable for matching since it depends on song.link to identify the track, but it should work for most things! <3
I really like the style with the monospace font and the catppuccin theme. the UI is smooth and very simple. maybe too simple.

that said, I got a network error after downloading nearly half of the playlist, and now I have to start over. I will blame my network for it, but I'd like to have a stronger retry mechanism.

thank you, i appreciate it.

regarding the network error, i do apologize for that. for now i've implemented a better retry mechanism but i'm still working on making it even better - more specifically a b better ui for for it

thanks again <3

hi, op here. since this was posted i've added yt-dlp as a fallback, so the self hosted version works straight out of the box with zero config now; just docker compose up -d. in addition to that, i've also addressed a lot of the issues mentioned here, thank you <3. for those curious audio sources are is tidal > deezer > youtube

i've also made a feedback form for an easier way to report bugs and feature recommendations!

repo: https://github.com/heysonder/yoink