Building an iPod for 2022

• BlackHole

  174 13,361 6.9 C

  BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

  

This (commercial) program[1] does the job for Spotify. I think what it does is just play the given playlist then it sets Spotify's audio output to a virtual audio device similar to BlackHole[2], then reads from it, encodes the audio, fetches the metadata (including album art) and sets it. There are open source[3] alternatives[4] but I haven't tested them.

[1] https://www.noteburner.com

[2] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

[3] https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify

[4] https://github.com/richardk80/spotify-ripper

• spy-spotify

  18 2,022 2.0 C#

  🎤 Records Spotify to mp3 without ads and adds media tags to the files 🎵

This (commercial) program[1] does the job for Spotify. I think what it does is just play the given playlist then it sets Spotify's audio output to a virtual audio device similar to BlackHole[2], then reads from it, encodes the audio, fetches the metadata (including album art) and sets it. There are open source[3] alternatives[4] but I haven't tested them.

[1] https://www.noteburner.com

[2] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

[3] https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify

[4] https://github.com/richardk80/spotify-ripper

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• spotify-ripper

  2 60 8.1 Python

  Discontinued Version 2.9.6 - Rip songs from Spotify using Terminal(Linux, MacOS, WSL 1 & 2) - Supports pyspotify 2.1.3 - Cover art works too (by richardk80)

This (commercial) program[1] does the job for Spotify. I think what it does is just play the given playlist then it sets Spotify's audio output to a virtual audio device similar to BlackHole[2], then reads from it, encodes the audio, fetches the metadata (including album art) and sets it. There are open source[3] alternatives[4] but I haven't tested them.

[1] https://www.noteburner.com

[2] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

[3] https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify

[4] https://github.com/richardk80/spotify-ripper

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