Any spotify experts ?

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    Just discovered spotify.

    For obvious reasons, I suspect it may not be possible, but is there any software that will allow you to capture the audio for listening to later. I suppose it is possible to connect something to the headphone socket but not sure whether the quality would be any good
     
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    Yes and no

    It is very difficult if not impossible to hijack the data that is coming in and export it to an ogg vorbis file. More simplistic is to let Spotify play normally and use Audacity to record what it plays back. The quality won't be great but it should be borderline OK. </p>

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    EDIT - found this guide</p>

    http://www.themanfromdelmonte.co.uk/2009/04/01/getting-mp3s-from-spotify-well-sort-of/</p>

    This is what I'm on about
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    I've heard of audacity but not used it. Can you specify the quality of the mp3 file
     
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    Just had a look (linux version but I'm guessing it's the same) and can't see a way, it seems to export them @ 128kbps stereo.

    To save a file you use Export from the file menu. You can export to mp3, flac, wav or Ogg Vorbis. You may be better exporting to wav or flac as these are lossless then converting to mp3 with your favourite encoding software.
     
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    Thanks. New to all this, but i reckon i'll be able to work out how to use audacity and the lame stuff. Only want the stuff for playing in the car, so 128 may be ok. However, what is the easiest software for converting WAV to mp3 thats freely available - can windows media player do it. Or is there any other smaller less resource hungry stuff.

    Oh well, looks like 2112 (Rush) is about to finish - time for bed
     
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    Audacity should be reight for the job. Just open up yer audio track and select file - export as Mp3.</p>

    Yer can select what bitrate to use beforehand in the preferences tab.
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    You can use ReplayMusic to rip the audio - Only downside is that it's realtime, so it rips as you play the audio.

    Demo of the program here http://applian.com/replay-music/ (patches are out there if you a dodgy type) ;)
     
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