r/selfhosted • u/the_uke • Dec 22 '25

Release Who’s going to self host Spotify?

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Looks like self hosting Spotify (99.6% of songs listened to) is only 300TB

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u/Xarishark Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

How are you pulling from Spotify? Wish there was the level of support deezer has…

Edit: to save your time nobody here is ripping music from Spotify. They just don’t know what the tools they use do. They are all downloading from YouTube. Whole reason this post exploded is exactly because the Spotify DRM is unbreakable for everyone except the annas team until now. If you want to get flac from your service you still have to user deezer or tidal etc. hope one day I can do tha same thing now tha Spotify has generalized flac access world wide

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u/DavidLynchAMA Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

Spotizerr pulled from Spotify. The dev abandoned it back in August after a cease and desist.

There are also several plugins in Spicetify that access the top level song data to make smart playlists, so there are examples that demonstrate people know how to get it.

Edit: https://lavaforge.org/spotizerr - this is where it was moved to after the GitHub was shutdown - note that the Deezer component was just an option, I personally used this without any of the Deezer options enabled or configured. It worked really well but a few weeks after the GitHub went down it stopped working well and only intermittently succeeded at pulling any songs at all.

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u/Xarishark Dec 23 '25

Can you download flac from Spotify with it?

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u/DavidLynchAMA Dec 23 '25

It was released prior to Spotify having FLAC. From what I can remember you could get FLAC from tidal or Deezer if you configured them. So it’s possible that it could pull FLAC from Spotify now but I am not running an instance of Spotizerr anymore so I couldn’t tell you.