How to rip music from spotify?

Is there a way to download (rip) music from spotify library. Let’s say i have a playlist, i would like to have it in mp3 format at selected quality. Many thanks, arrgh you booty lovers!

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Hook up a Sony Walkman to your headphone port and hit the red round button
- Ahhh, my old nemesis... Analog Gap! I knew we'd meet again some day!

You can use Audacity to record from the Speaker output internally. Just make sure there isn't anything else running that could interfere or make noise (anything connected to push notifications), and you should definitely make sure volume isn't too high else it'll peak and distort.
Avoid Spotify Downloaders, they are a Scam that often just searches for the music on YouTube. For true Spotify exclusives (or ones that just aren't on YouTube) the songs from those will be wrong, or if they're a downloader that is better at matching the songs, will just error because it couldn't find it.

Soggfy rips the audio and data from the stream itself as music plays on your machine. No searching the web for the music, no mistakes.
It works well, i hear.

Use zotify. You can download higher quality if you have premium of course.
- +1 for zotify. An actual Spotify downloader, not just some YouTube downloader with Spotify search.

Already mention SpotDL
Spowlo - android app (uses spotdl under the hood)
Spotifydown - website
- These aren't actual Spotify downloaders:
  spotDL finds songs from Spotify playlists on YouTube and downloads them
  Source: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/blob/master/README.md

I would transfer the playlist to Tidal (there are services out there that will import everything for a few dollars), then use Tidal-dl. The quality is much higher.
- Tidal-dl is simply incredible. Lots of folks out there using this to get rips of new music to upload to sites like RED.

Take a look at https://github.com/zotify-dev/zotify

I use Spotdl: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader
It's a python based CLI tool. You run the command and link to song/playlist/album and it basically looks on YT for the song, downloads the audio, the artwork and metadata.
It's what I've been using since I cancelled Spotify last year and decided to own my own library again
- This is very cool, but does it something that actually downloads music from Spotify? For a better audio quality...?
  
  I don't know of something that actually downloads from Spotify. The audio on the YouTube music links are fine for me, so I never looked elsewhere
  
  adding the flag --bitrate 320k usually does it for me. I can't really tell the difference.

I understand these tools download music from spotify servers imitating that you are streaming or “downloading for offline listening”? Are there any risks of getting a ban on the account or something? It would be better if tool would extract already downloaded music for offline listening or intercept download when you press download on spotify on premium account.
- I don't believe those tools download directly from Spotify. They use the Spotify api to gather the metadata then they download the files off YouTube.
  As I've seen others say, probably what you want to do is download them off Tidal or Quboz. Those YouTube rips suck.
- I just looked up, what about librespot? Does anyone have experience with it? Would that help to achieve such results?

Are theses actual rippers, or do they grab the song from elsewhere ?

I use https://github.com/casualsnek/onthespot . it works well but requires a Spotify account.
- This looks to be abandoned, but there is an updated fork that works excellent: https://github.com/justin025/onthespot
  
  I knew it was unmaintainable, but it still worked. Nice to see there's a fork.

SpotiFlyer (dead by now) or Soundbound.

I've been using Spytify for a long time.
- Ditto, it's very capable and easy to use

Not tried it in years, but there was an app called fildo which I think you could give it a playlist url. It was buggy af though.

You can try Votify, but it requires Widevine L3 keys

I know it's not great, but at the end of the day, a second sound card recording the first one gets the job done. I have loads of rips I did that way. It's kind of annoying to splice the samples and re-encode them with the correct tags though. But by the time you figure out how to rip something directly, you may find that re-recording the audio is quicker.
- It's better to avoid re-encoding as it lose quality.
  
  Of course it is, no question. But when there's no other choice...
- Ah yes, the modern day equivalent of recording radio broadcasts to magnetic tape. Made a few mixtapes that way myself. They were absolute garbage quality and I never listen to them anymore, but it was an interesting exercise and my only option for some stuff at the time.
  Now I just buy as directly from the artist as I can for things that are rare enough that they are difficult to pirate.
  
  we were "clever" and called the ka-chunk tapes because of the terrible song transitions. Yes Bandcamp has been my purchase site for a while now

Apps like Spotube (on F-Droid) allow you to just download the tracks.
- Spotube only gets the metadata from Spotify. It pulls the actual audio track from YouTube, so the quality is nowhere near as good as on Spotify.
  
  The more you know. Thanks for correcting me. I've been using it for a while and didn't know that.

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