I came across this website a while ago: https://lucida.to/
It lets you rip high quality music files from streaming services. Didn’t find much use of it in the past but lately I have been wanting obscure music I can’t find on soulseek or private trackers and it has been immensely helpful.
As far as I understand the whole process takes place in your browser. I am guessing this because I face a lot of georestrictions because of where I am from and this website fails for services not available here. In my case though Amazon Music works so I was able to get a FLAC of Rise Above the Storm from Beyblade which makes me unreasonably happy.
The underlying library for ripping is open source according to the website.
Could only get half the album I wanted but seeing this prompted me to try using ‘yt-dlp’, which uses cli commands in linux, and it did work somewhere this one failed and failed where this (slowly) worked. So nice to have both of them.
I still prefer torrent, but for the cases where that fails this is great. Thanks for the tip.
To be honest I can’t wait for anna’s archive to start offering music downloads too. lucida has been unreliable for me due to streaming service rate limiting I assume but it’s good to have more options for this stuff.
