Backing Up Spotify

Re:Backing Up Spotify by thaumasiotes on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:07PM (#46340083)

I assume in most cases they're literally the same files. Youtube runs "topic" channels for music that distributors have sent it.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOa-hi751OKY2zGJJv6V2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSxnv1_J2g (same thing, but on an official channel instead)

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by charcircuit on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:52PM (#46340426)

You can load any youtube music song on youtube by just removing the "music" subdomain.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by thaumasiotes on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:09PM (#46340555)

Then why do you say they might not be the same files?

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by charcircuit on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:24PM (#46341066)

Let me start over. Youtube itself has DRM required for certain videos, and certain formats of videos.

The 256 kbps format for music will be protected by DRM. If you do not have DRM available youtube will fallback to a lower quality format to play the auduo.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by sgtlaggy on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:58PM (#46340902)

Music might have higher quality audio-only files as provided where Youtube might have it combined with video and a generic compression algorithm applied as with all other uploaded videos.

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