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Re:Backing Up Spotify by KomoD on Sunday December 21, 2025 @05:58AM (#46343930)
I have a feeling they didn't use premium accounts since they downloaded at 160kbit/s, which is the highest quality that free accounts can get.

Premium gets 320kbit/s (or lossless)

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by tayiorrobinson on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @02:42PM (#46368632)
to use this method of scraping, logging in with a premium account is required.

so either they found a way around that lock, but not the quality lock, or they just decided 160k is good enough (it generally is), and decided to stick with that for filesize & bandwidth savings

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