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I've been wanting to switch off of spotify, but ive already collected all the songs i like and built all my playlists there. Is there a program or something that can easily scrape my spotify profile and make a list of all my songs and playlists?
Spotify has a takeout feature that can export all of your data iirc.
Qobuz streaming literally includes this service as the first step after signing up for a free trial. It copies all of your Spotify playlists and collections and creates exact replicates in Qobuz to use immediately. Worked flawlessly for me.
Only issue is that qobuz has a relatively tiny lossless English library from my experience compared to other streaming services
That doesn’t sound right. I just checked my library of over 1k songs and the only non-16 bit/44.1 was a 320kbps live recording from a niche band. Everything else was lossless CD quality. Are you sure you don’t mean HiRes 24 bit better than CD? Because only 10 percent of my fairly eclectic library on Qobuz is 24 bit, while on tidal is was around 15 percent. Oddly enough listening to the same track in hires on both services definitely has a slightly different sound, which makes no sense to me as a non audio engineer.
Or maybe I don’t understand the term for lossy vs lossless?
I mostly mean that when transferring a large playlist from something like Spotify it can become very noticeable how many songs are completely missing from the platform
The statistics are 2 years old but out of 40k songs it went something like this
Deezer: 259 tracks missing
Apple Music: 529 tracks missing
Tidal: 672 tracks missing
Qobuz: 2572 tracks missing
At least for me personally Apple Music had all my Spotify tracks in lossless while Tidal was a close 2nd where qobuz was straight up missing multiple artists, I have not tried deezer yet but I plan to later this month.
As long as it is volume matched and the track is at least cd quality then it should all sound the same as lossless is lossless assuming you can’t hear above 22khz (although on all the platforms it is not that uncommon for artists to upload fake lossless files)
Lossy however is a mess with how every codec can sound different at different bitrates and it is a fairly deep rabbit hole you can fall into, even with something like AAC there are multiple types that all sound different, AAC-LC, FDK-AAC, QuickTime-AAC etc.