SpotiFlyer: A Simple and Useful Music Downloader for GNU/Linux
Just under a year ago, we tackled a cool and useful app free and multiplatform call Freezer, which despite not being a free or open app, offered the magnificent capacity that its passionate users could easily access, play and download music using the online music service called Deezer. Therefore, today we will address a great alternative app, free and openCalled "Spotiflyer".
Which, it's also cross-platform, but it is not dedicated to a single service, but to several. yesin the need of records in the application or platforms from which the music was downloaded. So, later we will see more details about it.
Freezer: Free app for easy downloading of music on GNU / Linux
And as usual, before entering fully into the today's topic dedicated to the application "Spotiflyer", we will leave for those interested the following links to some previous related posts.
SpotiFlyer: Cross-platform music download app
What is SpotiFlyer?
According to his official website on GitHub, "Spotiflyer" It is briefly and concisely described as follows:
A cross-platform app for downloading music. And developed in Kotlin, which is an open source programming language developed by the company JetBrains, so that it can work excellently on Android.
Currently, he is going for his latest stable version numerous 3.6.1, released on 27/01/2022. However, its developer explains that it is in a total rewriting process, and that there will be new changes to it soon.
Features and news
Furthermore, the current 3.6 series of SpotiFlyer It has the following features and innovations:
- Support for the following platforms: Spotify, YouTube, YouTube Music, Gaana, Jio-Saavn and SoundCloud. And surely many more to come.
- It allows the download of albums, tracks and playlists, among other download facilities, such as being able to play all the downloaded content, at any time and completely offline.
- It does not request any user registration to function, nor user accounts in the services of the supported platforms to process the downloads. In addition, it does not include any type of ads or advertising.
- Fixed Ktor rendering issues and download failures, SoundCloud parsing errors, and SSL certificate validation errors.
- Incorporating updates to Compose, Kotlin, and other dependencies.
- Added and fixed some language translations.
- They include a deep code cleanup.
Operation
As we already expressed at the beginning, it is very simple and easy to use, and basically to use it you must do the following steps:
- Download, install and run SpotiFlyer on our computer with GNU/Linux, through its installer in .deb format (for Debian). Or by downloading its portable file in .jar format (for Java).
- Open the web app or video/music platform chosen (for example, YouTube or Spotify) and copy the link of the song or playlist that we want to download.
- Paste the link in the search box of the application and click on the Search button.
- Once the search is obtained, we must press the download button for the selected content to start downloading automatically.
How is it installed on GNU/Linux?
Since it offers a installer in .deb format and a portable executable in .jar format, we will try both on our usual Respin Miracles, based on MX-21 (Debian-11). And we will show the traditional screenshots of the process. And these are the following:
Summary
In summary, "Spotifyer" a very useful app to save musical content offline on our computer, and even mobile devices. Since its simplicity and ease of download all audio source of various internet platforms, for free and without registration, make it very practical and used by many passionate about music and audio extracted from videos. And besides, being able to use it from any computer, mobile and operating system, makes her a very universal software tool.
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