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This is a pretty easy way to automatically rip music from Spotify using AV Voice Changer 6. DO NOT DO THIS, YOU WILL BE IN VIOLATION OF THE SPOTIFY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT!

What you would need:

• A Spotify account and the Spotify client
• Audio4fun’s AV Voice Changer Software Diamond 6

Voice Changer is intended to be just that, a voice changer. It can make you sound like a cartoon mosquito or one of those creepy kidnappers from the movies, in real time. But the feature we would want is Voice Changer’s sound recording function which would allow us to record the tunes streamed from Spotify into separate files with the compression method of our choosing.

Start up the Spotify client and log in. Find a couple of tunes you like and put them in a playlist. Check that the music plays ok and without lag. Disconnect your microphone, and make sure there won’t be anything else making sound on your computer. Start up Voice Changer and verify that the audio from Spotify registers in Voice Changer’s volume meter. We don’t want our tunes to sound like smurf songs, so just turn off all the effects by clicking the On/Off button.

Voice Changer interface

Stop the music from playing for a moment and click Voice Changer’s Recorder button. A small window should open up, looking something like this:

Voice Changer's recorder window

We are going to make Voice Changer automatically record sound coming from Spotify. Click the Recorder Settings button in the upper right corner. Select your output folder, file naming, and the desired Encoder configuration. Then, go to the Autostart tab and add the Spotify executable to the list of programs Voice Changer should automaticly record from. When that’s all done, click OK.

Recorder autostart settings

Leave the Recorder window open. Voice Changer will now begin recording the moment Spotify makes a peep. And not only that, the songs would be seperated and encoded into individual files automatically.