Spotify Premium/Audacity: Illegal?

[FurdTurgeson]

I recently bought Spotify Premium this month on my home computer thinking the songs I downloaded would go into a folder, which I can copy onto flash drives and such. This is useful for me because some laptops that hardly have any space left on them, and would like to listen to music off of the flash drive where I don't have internet connection. When I tried to find the folder, it was just like Amazon music DRM where all the folders are a weird name, and the file type is very long and wonky. I have seen many tutorials about using the stereo mix on your audio settings to record Spotify songs and then use control+B to separate the tracks. Since Spotify technically said it's for offline listening, this shouldn't be illegal to do this, right?

[Altecice]

Its illegal.

[FurdTurgeson]

Just now, Altecice said:

Its illegal.

Is there any way to extract the offline files, then? 

[Sentryy]

6 minutes ago, WSADKeysGaming said:

Is there any way to extract the offline files, then? 

you're not gonna get arrested for anything though

not telling you that you can legally do this 

I would still just buy the music mp3 or w/e 

I was trying to do this with google play music but you can't download on windows  

[Naeaes]

Depends on your region and your local law. I mean, for instance in Finland the act of taking a copy of material you obtained legally, isn't illegal. The act of circumventing DRM to do so, is. Having copies of copyrighted content isn't illegal. Sharing them with others again, is.

 

Copyrights aside, if the Spotify EULA states you cannot do what you're doing, you're in breach of the contract. Again depending on your region, that may be illegal. 

 

Spotify does allow off-line listening. You just have to use a) pay for it and b) use Spotify to do so.

[Naeaes]

6 minutes ago, WSADKeysGaming said:

Is there any way to extract the offline files, then? 

Don't go there, man. We can discuss piracy here pretty freely, just not tell people how to do it or where to do it. It's not just us reading this. It's the entire Internet from now until it some day dies. 

[Enderman]

11 minutes ago, WSADKeysGaming said:

Is there any way to extract the offline files, then? 

No.........

The reason the files are encoded like that is specifically to PREVENT people from taking them and moving them anywhere for use.

Spotify offline is only for devices with spotify installed and logged into your account, to confirm that you are the one playing it.

 

If you copied the files to a USB you could freely redistribute everything.

[FurdTurgeson]

6 minutes ago, Naeaes said:

Don't go there, man. We can discuss piracy here pretty freely, just not tell people how to do it or where to do it. It's not just us reading this. It's the entire Internet from now until it some day dies. 

I mean the files spotify gives you for offline use

[FurdTurgeson]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

No.........

The reason the files are encoded like that is specifically to PREVENT people from taking them and moving them anywhere for use.

Spotify offline is only for devices with spotify installed and logged into your account, to confirm that you are the one playing it.

 

If you copied the files to a USB you could freely redistribute everything.

Aight. No DRM circumvented

[FurdTurgeson]

What about a YT playlist of the songs and then ClipConverter them all? 

[Volbet]

6 minutes ago, WSADKeysGaming said:

What about a YT playlist of the songs and then ClipConverter them all? 

Again. that would depend on the country you reside in and the laws that are in place. 

In most countries it's not illegal per say to download clips off YouTube, since it's legally the same as recording off the TV.

However, it's a criteria that the source is legal IE. it has to be an official upload for it not to be piracy.

 

Bu using a YouTube downloader is against YouTube's EULA, so they can take appropriate actions if they catch you. 

[FurdTurgeson]

Just now, Volbet said:

Again. that would depend on the country you reside in and the laws that are in place. 

In most countries it's not illegal per say to download clips off YouTube, since it's legally the same as recording off the TV.

However, it's a criteria that the source is legal IE. it has to be an official upload for it not to be piracy.

 

Bu using a YouTube downloader is against YouTube's EULA, so they can take appropriate actions if they catch you. 

I've used multiple sites multiple times, so I'll go that method.

 

And for the sake of the whole thread I live in Arizona.

[Volbet]

39 minutes ago, WSADKeysGaming said:

I've used multiple sites multiple times, so I'll go that method.

 

And for the sake of the whole thread I live in Arizona.

In that case the 1984 case Universal Studios vs. Sony Corporation of America made it legal to record legally sourced, non-DRM protected material for non-commercial, privat use. 

[FurdTurgeson]

3 minutes ago, Volbet said:

In that case the 1984 case Universal Studios vs. Sony Corporation of America made it legal to record legally sourced, non-DRM protected material. 

Aight ill just download the ncs playlist then