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Oneill5491
04-23-2020 at 06:16 PM.
04-23-2020 at 06:16 PM.
Interesting. So does this do some kind of digital rip of the song or does it do some lame realtime playback and simply makes a recording of the music?
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winb83
04-23-2020 at 07:25 PM.
04-23-2020 at 07:25 PM.
I bought and tried this just to see if it would work. It must be doing a digital rip of the audio file as Spotify downloads it. It kinda overtakes the Spotify program on my Windows PC and it does work.
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04-23-2020 at 07:38 PM.
04-23-2020 at 07:38 PM.
Is this matter of time before this gets shut down?
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winb83
04-23-2020 at 07:42 PM.
04-23-2020 at 07:42 PM.
Quote from reactions :
Is this matter of time before this gets shut down?
I would assume so unless it's a cat and mouse game where the maker updates the program. But it works now.
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MusicShark
04-23-2020 at 07:49 PM.
04-23-2020 at 07:49 PM.
Quote from winb83 :
I would assume so unless it's a cat and mouse game where the maker updates the program. But it works now.
Not really a cat and mouse game since there is a law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The company is needed to be in DMCA ignored countries to not get shut down.
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winb83
04-23-2020 at 07:52 PM.
04-23-2020 at 07:52 PM.
Yeah this is either ripping the audio or getting it from another streaming app that's less secure. Probably ripping the audio but speeding up the play then slowing it back down.
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HapShaughnessy
04-23-2020 at 08:00 PM.
04-23-2020 at 08:00 PM.
Essentially no reviews for this Ondesoft product. Pass.

Typical StackSocial crap.
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cncfactory
04-23-2020 at 08:02 PM.
04-23-2020 at 08:02 PM.
Are the rips high quality? Does it rip 320 kbps?
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winb83
04-23-2020 at 08:05 PM.
04-23-2020 at 08:05 PM.
Quote from epicdeals365 :
Are the rips high quality? Does it rip 320 kbps?
It does rip in that quality. There's a very limited use case for this thing. If you have an iPod or Apple Watch or other MP3 player it would work but on a mobile phone Spotify already let's you download the audio files. This is a way to get Spotify music on devices incompatible with the service.
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ebolaboi
04-23-2020 at 08:11 PM.
04-23-2020 at 08:11 PM.
Uhhhh. Isn't there free MP3/FLAC rippers, etc out there? Then you can use them almost anywhere with any free program.
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Lamborghini22
04-23-2020 at 08:12 PM.
04-23-2020 at 08:12 PM.
I watched the video on the site. What this software does is it plays the entire song, records it 1:1 (so you need to wait 5 minutes to 'convert' a 5-minute song), and then it encodes the recorded audio to mp3. The video is sped up - watch the clock. Spotify's native format (and only format) is ogg vorbis for what it's worth, so simply the fact that it starts out as lossy audio means that the end product from this software is a double-lossy-encoded audio file that ends up in a format that is 30 years old.

In summary, there are better ways to get music for $15. There are also free ways to do what this software does if you are so interested in doing such a tedious process. At least this software seems to automatically generate metadata (track name, artwork, etc.).
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HapShaughnessy
04-23-2020 at 08:13 PM.
04-23-2020 at 08:13 PM.
Quote from ebolaboi :
Uhhhh. Isn't there free MP3/FLAC rippers, etc out there? Then you can use them almost anywhere with any free program.
Audacity is free.

How To: https://spotifyrippermac.com/. You need an external sound card.

It's not yet fully compatible with Catalina, but that can usually be fixed:
https://www.audacityteam.org/maco...-audacity/

Tuneskit is a highly rated paid drag and drop app with a free trial:
https://www.tuneskit.com/music-co...r-spotify/
Works very well.
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ebolaboi
04-23-2020 at 08:21 PM.
04-23-2020 at 08:21 PM.
Quote from PossumLodge :
Audacity is free.

How To: https://spotifyrippermac.com/
Ohh. Isn't spotify crappy quality anyway? They don't have everything.Wouldn't a torrent be better behind a VPN?
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winb83
04-23-2020 at 08:23 PM.
04-23-2020 at 08:23 PM.
Quote from Lamborghini22 :
I watched the video on the site. What this software does is it plays the entire song, records it 1:1 (so you need to wait 5 minutes to 'convert' a 5-minute song), and then it encodes the recorded audio to mp3. The video is sped up - watch the clock. Spotify's native format (and only format) is ogg vorbis for what it's worth, so simply the fact that it starts out as lossy audio means that the end product from this software is a double-lossy-encoded audio file that ends up in a format that is 30 years old.

In summary, there are better ways to get music for $15. There are also free ways to do what this software does if you are so interested in doing such a tedious process. At least this software seems to automatically generate metadata (track name, artwork, etc.).
It being 1:1 in time is false. I just timed a 4 minute song and it took 54 seconds.
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