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▲ Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free(yoinkify.com)
58 points by chasefrazier 3 days ago | 38 comments
▲rcbdev 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

As long as companies employ morally vacuous techniques to strip us of our fundamental freedoms, I say, copyright should be completely disregarded by the global citizenry as dead law. The AI labs have set the precedent here.

Why should big companies get to have rights and freedoms when such things aren't afforded to us? Long live piracy. May our spirits never falter.

▲faangguyindia 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

1. Create a law

2. Break it when it's more profitable to break it and pay fines.

That's what people with power have always done.

Let it be taxi madallion or ai training on other people's code and books.

▲iamsaitam 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What does this have to do with copyright? This is stealing pure and simple. If you walk out of a museum with one of its art pieces, you're not going to get arrested for copyright infringement.

▲KetoManx64 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What did he steal? He was receiving the binary data anyways when he streams it on his devices. How does him just keeping that binary data on his phone/computer instead of deleting it qualify as "theft"?

▲pavel_lishin 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What if I walk out of a museum having taken a high-quality photograph of a photography exhibit? What have I stolen, then?

▲Parae 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you go to a country, steal all the art, create a museum in your country, make money out of it, how would you call it ?

▲none2585 2 days ago | parent [-]

The British Museum

▲WarcrimeActual 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Being this much of a bootlicker for mega corps under the guise of "law abiding" is dumb. It's also and incredibly disingenuous argument. Stealing a physical thing is one thing, bit perfect copying of a digital item removes it from nobody's possession. And since I don't believe that companies have the right to infinite money for having stolen enough from previous endeavors to buy up the rights to things people like, taking it in any way you can is lawful regardless of if it's legal.

▲rcbdev 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

But it's not like that now, is it? I created an identical copy of the art piece and provide it for free to enjoyers of art all over the world.

▲roscas 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I never used spotify and will never use but let me just congrat you for your site that uses no crap of google or ads. It is that rare to see this. HN is another decent on, but 99% of web sites are a privacy and malware nightmare.

▲mdrzn 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very cool, but tried pasting a few playlists and it never fetched more than 95/98 tracks (playlist had 100+ tracks in it). I'd be interested in the open source version, so I could run it locally on cron.

▲KetoManx64 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Search for "Spotizerr Git". You'll need a premium for downloading flac quality though.

▲WarcrimeActual 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So is this piracy then? Don't me me wrong. I think piracy is a moral imperative, but I'm curious how far this sits in the gray area.

▲conception 3 days ago | parent [-]

I don’t think it’s very gray actually.

▲WarcrimeActual 2 days ago | parent [-]

I like to leave room for a generous interpretation of things. Again though, I find piracy to be more compulsory than optional in the fight against corporations that have more money than God and fewer morals than Satan.

▲Jotalea a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I really like the style with the monospace font and the catppuccin theme. the UI is smooth and very simple. maybe too simple.

that said, I got a network error after downloading nearly half of the playlist, and now I have to start over. I will blame my network for it, but I'd like to have a stronger retry mechanism.

▲sky2224 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 03 audio sourced from the web

Where? How do I know you're not pulling from some shady repository?

▲petterroea 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe will get a resurgence of the limewire-style pranks people are so nostalgic for

▲WarcrimeActual 2 days ago | parent [-]

I want Arnold to tell me about pizza again soooooooooo bad.

▲nickphx 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

shady repository of... audio? to what end?

▲adi_kurian 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes exactly there's lossless FLAC of everything ever recorded sitting out there for the takers

▲HDBaseT 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How good is your opsec?

▲pseudosaid 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the github mentions tidal integrations. i hope they are adding random delays between each download or that user is gonna get their account auto deleted by tidal.

▲BrandoElFollito 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nice. Is there something similar for Youtube Music Premium?

▲stephenlf 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i guess we’re doing piracy now

▲WarcrimeActual 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It never stopped. And it was always in the moral right. As such it is not just justifiable, but I would say necessary.

▲cauefcr 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

were we supposed to have stopped at some point?

▲Messyflame 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everything is paid nowadays, which makes it harder for a user to access something. Great solution.

▲Artoooooor 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is comically blatant. Tell law enforcement you are downloading these tracks to train AI and you're safe.

▲konaraddi 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> couldn't load artist — Spotify API is temporarily unavailable

▲konaraddi 3 days ago | parent [-]

Nvm! I used an artist link but it needed a track link

▲phantomathkg 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It doesn't work for some alnum/song however.

▲finghin 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Seems to have gotten hugged to death.

▲vsgherzi 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the project mentions the github but I can't seem to find it, any links?

▲softblush 3 days ago | parent [-]

https://github.com/heysonder/yoink

▲vsgherzi 3 days ago | parent [-]

Interesting so you’re pulling the audio from tidal’s old api. Perhaps a little dubious on the legality side but hey maybe don’t leave the api open :)

▲smonff 2 days ago | parent [-]

YouTube / Google too.

▲robofanatic 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

this is magic. hope Spotify doesn't spot it and stop it!