streamrip VS nicotine-plus

you can convert your Spotify playlist to Deezer, then use something like streamrip to download from Deezer. You need an arl to use it, you can get one here. use the beta version of streamrip to use arls.

streamrip

If you have access to a qobuz account, I'd probably recommend good ol streamrip

There's streamrip that can rip from several streaming services (read the docs).

I stopped using it, using this now...

beside deemix, this thingy also work

If you got Qobuz premium you could use streamrip if not then you could just use GamersDrive/SlavArt Discord bots, it's on the megathread.

Looking at multiple GitHub Repos, like the one found Here, I notice the programmers incorporate some level of OOP into their code and their files are generally far more sophisticated than anything I've ever written.

You better download and use Nicotine+, it's a frequently updated client for the soulseek platform.

The next version of Nicotine+ will turn the bitrate column into a quality column that shows the actual audio attributes provided. https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/pull/2564

Completely agree. try this https://nicotine-plus.org

As has been said, K/s is an indication of transfer speed, and the default SLSK client does not keep track of transferred data for you. However, as there's never a bad time for a Nicotine+ plug, that does keep such stats, both for session and total transfer.

I don't know about Ventura, but why not give Nicotine+ a go. :)

Try out Nicotine+

Please be careful, there are some fake versions of the slsk client out there and they are confirmed malware. The official Soulseek website is http://www.slsknet.org/. There was a previous domain, but Nir (slsk's founder) lost control of it many years ago. I suggest you download a version of the client from this page or better yet download a copy of the third party client Nicotine+. N+ is updated far more regularly than the official slsk client (now 2+ years out of date), is less resource intensive and has better features.

The Nicotine+ repository has the most up to date protocol documentation here. This was originally documented in a couple of places but hadn't been updated in a long time.