option to rip to ALAC, a loseless codec, instead of MP3 (requires extra avconv dependency).keep local files in sync with a Spotify playlist, m3u and wpl playlist file.helpful progress bar to gauge the time remaining until completion.

use a config file to specify common command-line options.

Python 3 will occasionally throw a NameError: name '_lock' is not defined exception at the end of the script due to an upstream bug in pyspotify.

globally installs ripper script using setup.py.

option to remove tracks from playlist after successful ripping.

options for interactive login (no password in shell history) and.

search for tracks using Spotify queries.

accepts tracks, playlists, albums, and artist URIs.

option to skip or overwrite existing files.

rips files into the following directory structure: artist/album/artist - song.mp3 by default or optionally into a user-specified structure (see Format String section below).

writes ID3v2/metadata tags (including album covers).

real-time VBR or CBR ripping from Spotify PCM stream.

There’s no guarantees, but one can hope that the large deployment of libspotify means that the library will continue to work with the Spotify service for a long time into the future. Libspotify has been the main way of integrating with Spotify since 2009, and is today a part of numerous open source projects and commercial applications, including many receivers and even cars.

Though, for making apps with Spotify playback capabilities, on any other platform than Android and iOS, there is currently no alternative to libspotify. Spotify has published newer libraries intended for Android and iOS development, as well as web APIs to access track metadata and manage playlists. Note that as of Jan 2016 Spotify may no longer be issuing developer keys. Note that as of May 2015 libspotify is officially deprecated by Spotify and is no longer actively maintained. Note that stream ripping violates the libspotify's ToS Libspotify’s Deprecation By default spotify-ripper will encode to MP3 files, but includes the ability to rip to WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, AAC, and MP4/M4A. URIs to audio files and includes ID3 tags and cover art.

Spotify-ripper is a small ripper script for Spotify that rips Spotify

Spotify rip to mp3