Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free

https://yoinkify.com

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rcbdevMar 26, 2026, 6:26 AM
As long as companies employ morally vacuous techniques to strip us of our fundamental freedoms, I say, copyright should be completely disregarded by the global citizenry as dead law. The AI labs have set the precedent here.

Why should big companies get to have rights and freedoms when such things aren't afforded to us? Long live piracy. May our spirits never falter.

faangguyindiaMar 26, 2026, 9:50 AM
1. Create a law

2. Break it when it's more profitable to break it and pay fines.

That's what people with power have always done.

Let it be taxi madallion or ai training on other people's code and books.

iamsaitamMar 26, 2026, 9:10 AM
What does this have to do with copyright? This is stealing pure and simple. If you walk out of a museum with one of its art pieces, you're not going to get arrested for copyright infringement.
pavel_lishinMar 26, 2026, 5:30 PM
What if I walk out of a museum having taken a high-quality photograph of a photography exhibit? What have I stolen, then?
ParaeMar 26, 2026, 1:00 PM
If you go to a country, steal all the art, create a museum in your country, make money out of it, how would you call it ?
none2585Mar 26, 2026, 6:13 PM
The British Museum
rcbdevMar 26, 2026, 1:43 PM
But it's not like that now, is it? I created an identical copy of the art piece and provide it for free to enjoyers of art all over the world.
WarcrimeActualMar 26, 2026, 2:28 PM
Being this much of a bootlicker for mega corps under the guise of "law abiding" is dumb. It's also and incredibly disingenuous argument. Stealing a physical thing is one thing, bit perfect copying of a digital item removes it from nobody's possession. And since I don't believe that companies have the right to infinite money for having stolen enough from previous endeavors to buy up the rights to things people like, taking it in any way you can is lawful regardless of if it's legal.
JotaleaMar 27, 2026, 1:15 PM
I really like the style with the monospace font and the catppuccin theme. the UI is smooth and very simple. maybe too simple.

that said, I got a network error after downloading nearly half of the playlist, and now I have to start over. I will blame my network for it, but I'd like to have a stronger retry mechanism.

roscasMar 25, 2026, 7:43 PM
I never used spotify and will never use but let me just congrat you for your site that uses no crap of google or ads. It is that rare to see this. HN is another decent on, but 99% of web sites are a privacy and malware nightmare.
mdrznMar 26, 2026, 7:04 PM
Very cool, but tried pasting a few playlists and it never fetched more than 95/98 tracks (playlist had 100+ tracks in it). I'd be interested in the open source version, so I could run it locally on cron.
sky2224Mar 26, 2026, 2:26 AM
> 03 audio sourced from the web

Where? How do I know you're not pulling from some shady repository?

petterroeaMar 26, 2026, 4:52 AM
Maybe will get a resurgence of the limewire-style pranks people are so nostalgic for
WarcrimeActualMar 26, 2026, 2:29 PM
I want Arnold to tell me about pizza again soooooooooo bad.
nickphxMar 26, 2026, 7:59 AM
shady repository of... audio? to what end?
BrandoElFollitoMar 27, 2026, 11:20 AM
Nice. Is there something similar for Youtube Music Premium?
HDBaseTMar 26, 2026, 4:12 AM
How good is your opsec?
pseudosaidMar 26, 2026, 1:49 AM
the github mentions tidal integrations. i hope they are adding random delays between each download or that user is gonna get their account auto deleted by tidal.
stephenlfMar 26, 2026, 1:51 AM
i guess we’re doing piracy now
cauefcrMar 26, 2026, 4:00 AM
were we supposed to have stopped at some point?
WarcrimeActualMar 26, 2026, 2:30 PM
It never stopped. And it was always in the moral right. As such it is not just justifiable, but I would say necessary.
ArtoooooorMar 26, 2026, 8:34 AM
This is comically blatant. Tell law enforcement you are downloading these tracks to train AI and you're safe.
MessyflameMar 26, 2026, 6:31 AM
Everything is paid nowadays, which makes it harder for a user to access something. Great solution.
konaraddiMar 26, 2026, 1:50 AM
> couldn't load artist — Spotify API is temporarily unavailable
konaraddiMar 26, 2026, 1:53 AM
Nvm! I used an artist link but it needed a track link
phantomathkgMar 26, 2026, 7:46 AM
It doesn't work for some alnum/song however.
WarcrimeActualMar 25, 2026, 8:32 PM
So is this piracy then? Don't me me wrong. I think piracy is a moral imperative, but I'm curious how far this sits in the gray area.
conceptionMar 26, 2026, 12:42 AM
I don’t think it’s very gray actually.
WarcrimeActualMar 26, 2026, 2:19 PM
I like to leave room for a generous interpretation of things. Again though, I find piracy to be more compulsory than optional in the fight against corporations that have more money than God and fewer morals than Satan.
finghinMar 26, 2026, 10:37 AM
Seems to have gotten hugged to death.
vsgherziMar 26, 2026, 12:33 AM
the project mentions the github but I can't seem to find it, any links?
softblushMar 26, 2026, 1:20 AM
https://github.com/heysonder/yoink
vsgherziMar 26, 2026, 3:13 AM
Interesting so you’re pulling the audio from tidal’s old api. Perhaps a little dubious on the legality side but hey maybe don’t leave the api open :)
smonffMar 26, 2026, 12:14 PM
YouTube / Google too.
robofanaticMar 26, 2026, 12:16 AM
this is magic. hope Spotify doesn't spot it and stop it!