I often used this site to download flac songs that I was unable to find on SLSK or other torrents. Is there an alternative to this site that anyone knows of. It will be missed.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Crap.
    But it already enshittified slightly. It had ad-block blocking and hostile tracking BS added recently. You’d have to manually unclick each vendor for the “Genuine interest” section which would take like 2 minutes as you had to click it one-by-one.
    Could have just kept the ads as they were and added a donation button.

    Anyway, I’ve also been using http://flacmusicfinder.com/ as well. However, this one just links to user-added content, so the quality may vary. I recommend using Spek to check the FLACs.
    It’s not as nice to navigate, but oh well, you only download every song once anyway.

    • Blxter@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yea one day when I tried it said I had to disable my ad blocker. So I tried with Firefox on my phone with ad block and it worked like a week later it was working on desktop again.

      • TheProtector0034@feddit.nlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Just make a free account on Deezer, get the link of the song or album and paste it on the the doubletop website.

        • rolandtb303@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          6 months ago

          you can also search for the song on a search engine and just type deezer at the end of it, then get the link that way.

    • harald_im_netz@feddit.deEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Such a great tool, but I would love to just download in MP3 320, as FLAC is overkill for a music collection, and eats storage for breakfast :-( Is there something similar for MP3 320?

      • TheProtector0034@feddit.nlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Yes, get the Spotify link of a song, playlist or album. Then go to the options of doubledouble top, choose for MP3 320kpbs in the Spotify section.

        https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/709b88a7-5101-4d87-8fb9-d8d2301d20a8.jpeg

  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Just want to point out that you can download audio from a Youtube video using yt-dlp and the following options:

    -x, --extract-audio                               Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and
                                                  ffprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT                             Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently
                                                  supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus,
                                                  vorbis, wav). You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax
                                                  as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY                           Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with
                                                  -x. Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a
                                                  specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)

    You might have to use a tool to re-do the tags, but that’s pretty easy to do. Edit: also want to point out that yt-dlp also works with a number of other sites besides Youtube.

  • Hedlosa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If you’re on Linux try zotify, amazingly easy to use, straight from the source, and fast!

    Quick disclaimer: some people report their accounts being banned, but I have personally downloaded 6500+ songs and I have been fine as well as plenty of others with similar numbers. If you want to play it safe, you can download really slowly at 1x speed and Spotify can’t tell the difference between downloading and playing media.