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		KomoD 48 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backing up Spotify 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)

tayiorrobinson 46 days ago [–]

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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