Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

• kadup@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think any links would violate Lemmy.world’s policies.

  But a quick search for “Tidal downloaded” will give you several options.

  Basically when Tidal streams to specific devices they basically upload an encrypted FLAC to an AWS host and the device downloads the file and uses your account as the key.

  So people create apps that do all that, but instead of simply streaming the FLAC, they download and save it.

  The great part is you get album art, live lyrics, high resolution audio, an organized and properly tagged library with zero work. The output FLACs are regular files - no DRM or weirdness, I use them on a MP3 player.

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  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i gave it a cursory duckduckgo! everything looked a couple years old. I’ll keep digging.

    i wouldn’t mind a dm! if you’ve the time.

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You want a new generation tidal downloader.

      On GitHub.

      So a Tidal downloader new generation.

      One could call such a thing tidal-dl-ng if they’re trying to save some letters, I guess.

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      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        thanks for helping out an old man!

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