Re:Backing Up Spotify
by coppsilgold on Saturday December 20, 2025 @09:36PM
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Even if you plug the audio output into the input you would still be taking a quality loss by passing the audio through a DAC and then an ADC. Maybe if the quality of your hardware is good enough it wouldn't matter, but then you would be limited to only ripping 24 hours of audio per day...
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Re:Backing Up Spotify
by yungwarlock on Sunday December 21, 2025 @05:31AM
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Bro. Who cares. Ive got
bunch of songs like this. The loss makes it more nostalgic
They recently started offering lossless, could you get down to the equivalent of 320kbps?
I grew up on sites like Suprnova, and quickly found I could not discern the difference between 320 mp3s and lossless.
Even now, I only seem to notice if I use a very high end pair of headphones, and mostly with electronic music that has a lot of soft parts with sounds that are in the low or high end of the spectrum.
You don't have to pass it through a DAC. There's no equivalent of HDCP for protecting digital audio end to end. Crudely, you could capture S/PDIF but really, skip that and just output to a virtual audio device for recording. No DAC in the path either way.
But yes, it is inconvenient and slow.