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eviabs / downtify-premium

Downtify is an open source Spofity downloader which makes it possible to download all your favourite songs and/or playlists directly from spotify. A Spotify Premium account is required.
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[Request] Feature: Set output to FLAC #7

Open bascurtiz opened 5 years ago

bascurtiz commented 5 years ago

Since Spotify Premium is able to produce 320kbps OGG (which is better quality than 320kbps MP3), Could you implement a feature so the output can be written to FLAC (saving that bit of extra quality) ?

eviabs commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. At the momemt I don't have time to do that, but I might give it a shot in the future.

github-account1111 commented 3 years ago

How would encoding to flac save quality? Why not just download ogg instead of mp3?

spfy13 commented 3 years ago

How would encoding to flac save quality? Why not just download ogg instead of mp3?

Some players don't support .ogg like iPod Classics. You really need VLC to play it.

github-account1111 commented 3 years ago

You didn't answer my question. How would it save quality? It makes no sense.

You can remux it to flac on your own with zero quality loss if you want, that wasn't my point. It would be weird at best, but more importantly misleading to save a lossy ogg file as flac (a lossless file extension). People interested in lossless-only will end up with a lossy encode disguised as a lossless file, and people interested in re-encoding to other codecs (mp3, aac, opus) will end up with a lossy-to-lossy transcode. It's a lose-lose. But at least you can play it on your iPod Classic? Is that what you're saying?