I've been using Deemix for several years, but it's not maintained anymore and it finally stopped working :<

But the way it worked was you paid for a deezer.com subscription and gave the login arl token to the deemix app. Then the app could download the music files using your account.

Is there anything like that these days?

no one's seeding the brutal death metal and symphonic black metal i listen to, so i want to know this too

Best I’ve found is yt-dlp against YouTube Music. Their catalog is pretty complete but there’s definitely more legwork involved than point and click.

https://github.com/mornyeapp/Mornye

Used to be called Spotiflac and they've renamed themselves like two or three days ago, you might need to add this as a repo source to install the plugins:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spotiflacapp/spotiflac-extension/main/registry.json

Not sure how long that link will last and I haven't found the new one for Mornye yet

*Edit found it:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mornyeapp/Mornye-Extension/refs/heads/main/registry.json

You could try Spotube. It's sort of a front end for your Spotify account and can download songs. Can be buggy at times but it works.

Learn to use yt-dlp on a terminal. Is way easier and practical that a GUI and you can learn it if you invest a little of time and effort on how to use it in a terminal. 99% of the you are going to use the sem options and just pasting the link.

You can even make a script to read your linkes and automatically download the nusic.

Is there a particular reason for downloading from streaming services? If not and lossless is important to you, it might be easier to use something like Soulseek (via Nicotine) and get flac files. There are some projects like SockSeek that can automate downloads (I used it when it was called sldl to convert my YouTube playlists into a local flac music library).

can yt-dlp grab things from deezer?

I think streamrip is what you want

https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

and there's an updated and maintained version of deemix here:

https://github.com/bambanah/deemix

is sockseek one of those clients that doesn't share back and just leeches off the network?

If so please don't use it, people have started putting capatchas on their shares because of these clients and it messes up legitimate clients like slskd

https://fmhy.net/audio#audio-ripping

Does Mornye actually work? Last time I tried to use Spotiflac it would intentionally not connect to download servers unless you had the version locked behind the author's Patreon

YT Music is lossy, unfortunately.

I use lucida.to, and fallback to yt-dlp if the song I want isn't on there.

There's this: edit:removed due to vibe coded

A fork is maintained here

no one’s seeding the brutal death metal and symphonic black metal

https://metalarea.org/forum/

https://en.metal-tracker.com/

https://deathgrind.club/

https://in-the-fog.ru/

https://vk.com/sbdm_community

and soulseek obviously

I can't confirm, but given the question is several hours old without response;

yt-dlp can use webbrowser cookies to use browser login sessions --cookies-from-browser firefox, which may be enough

vibe-coded

You can use yt-dlp on non-YouTube sites.

And I know there are ways to enter credentials and stuff so it might actually work for OP. Not sure though.

It's such a wonderful piece of software.

Soulseek is like Napster. You're not downloading from a swarm just directly from others and once you host those files, people can download them from you.

I am well aware of what soulseek is. sockseek is not soulseek though, it's a vibe coded app that doesn't share back to the network and causes issues with legitimate clients.

Although not directly from these, the Soulseek service through Nicotine+ is amazing for this.

Yeah it takes some initial setup but then it 'just works'™, although I know the one you're talking about you might have been using the other build called spotifree or spotidownloader something like that

I setup some tools for my own personal use but its open for anyone else who wants to use it.

https://shrike.gravitywell.xyz/

It sources from tidal and soulseek

Firehawk52 has a website for sharing of cookies to deezee and qobuz.

it seems their spotify integration doesn't download stuff, did it ever download lossless flac from spotify?

https://rentry.org/megathread-music

I don't really understand why you would want to do this unless your music tastes are SO obscure that the releases don't exist anywhere else.

There's a hundred different places to grab astounding high quality FLAC releases and start your own high quality collection.

JDownloader or ytdlp (the second has a UI separately)

i tried register at metal-tracker 2 days ago, never got the verification email, tried it with a different email on a different domain just now, still no email--is it abandoned?

Use soulseek instead. Don't use those evil streaming services.

There is likely some issue with the mail server you are using, as i'm downloading and seeding on metal-tracker right now, and also i see new uploads and numerous new user registrations from today.

what email server did you use? tuta and proton aren't working for me