Hiš
Iāve been downloading Sapien Med tracks from Patreon, opening them in Spotify, and creating playlists from them with titles likeā¦ Mental Health / Exercise / Teeth & Gums etc. so I can listen offline.
It works at first, and then suddenly certain tracks will disappear from Spotify, or Spotify will say, āYou donāt have permission to download/play that songā.
Or certain tracks can be listened to - just not offline.
Or certain tracks canāt be added to a playlistā¦
Can somebody please suggest an android mobile friendly app (or any other solution) that will allow me to, a) download Sapienās tracks from Patreon without compromising the effect,
b) allow me to create playlists, and,
c) allow me to listen to said playlists offline?
Thank you!
P.S. Please forgive me if this has already been covered somewhere. Iām new here and still navigating the forum. Iām not terribly tech savvyā¦ Sorry!
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A related tip in case anyone wants to download stuff off of Spotify, soundcloud, youtube, and other music hosts: Use Spotiflyer (cross platform)
Youtube alternative on Android = Newpipe (no ads, background play, playlists, subscribe feeds, no YouTube account sign in though), you can use Raag on F Droid app directory (F Droid is an alternative to Google Play store) as alternative to dowbload full quality of youtube audio
This phrase is unclear to me. So I do want to remind our forum friends to be careful about downloading fields from YouTube. Itās been said in a number of different ways that downloaders from YouTube can change the file coding which will then change the field. This is because of the unique way that YouTube codes its files.
I donāt know this app youāre mentioning or what it does (and your phrasing confuses me) or if it plays files in the native YouTube coding structure or does something else.
And to anyone reading this, using a player as which plays simply plays the fields from YouTube without any conversion is just fine. I know that VLC Player and services like listenonrepeat do this. Iām sure that there are many others I donāt yet know about (like perhaps your NewPipe might do this, too).
I understand. Iād be vigilant too if i were you.
Newpipe
Newpipe is an Android app thatās basically like YouTube music only all free features. Iāve mainly used for āstreamingā (watching/viewing) videos. Iāve been using this for many years now and had no issues with listening to the audios
Raag (only for Android. On F-Droid store [Filled with open source apps] downloads the highest quality available that youtube allows and depending on the uploader, but since itās a small project i wouldnāt recommend since it is buggy (still usable for me as a tech-superuser) in its current state
The Official FaQ from the team stated on #25 and #35 that sound quality on device doesnāt matter, itās merely a carrier for the energy, but if youāre not getting results, then it usually means you have converted it to a different format (which can lead to massive loss in quality) using whatever software that did it
For any other solution, Iāve found that a good old MP3 player works. I used to use an old iPod nano before the battery died. I may eventually fix it one dayā¦
Anyways, this MP3 is pretty easyāit doesnāt need any extra software, youād just plug it into the computer and then drag and drop and (with a SD card) you could store quite a few songs on it. It also supports playlists, if you know how to make them.
Now recently there is an Android app called Seal on F-Droid which uses yt-dlp and has the option to download without conversion of the file: .OPUS which is the container for the audio information and doesnāt tamper with the codec.
Anybody can confirm this by going to a video on youtube, right-clicking on the video, clicking on the āStats for nerdsā text that appeared in a pop-up, then seeing that even a normal video is streamed with OPUS audio.
This audio can be in turn downloaded with Youtube-dl / Ypt-dl (the format codes are the same).
Spotifyās offline songs are encrypted and stored within the Spotify app itself, and they can only be played within the Spotify app. Spotify uses a digital rights management (DRM) system to protect the songs and ensure that they cannot be accessed or played outside of the Spotify app. If you want to listen to Spotifyās offline downloads, you should use the Spotify app itself. Within the Spotify app, you can access and play the songs youāve downloaded for offline listening without an internet connection. But you could also download songs with some third-party music converters such as DumpMedia Spotify Music Converter, TunesFun Spotify Music Converter, or TunesSolo Spotify Music Converter.
Because of the DRM protection, the downloaded tracks from Spotify can only be played on Spotify. If you want to save the downloaded tracks forever, you can try Spotify Music Unlocker to download your playlist.
