Yoink
Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free
Details
- External ID
- 47521910
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Yoink
- Website domain
- yoinkify.com
- Launched
- March 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 58
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8511685116851169
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- convert spotify to lossless self-hosted
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a self-hosted web UI is simple, but retrieving DRM-free lossless audio streams by matching Spotify metadata to alternative services (like Tidal, Qobuz, or Deezer) relies on reverse-engineered private APIs.
What it would actually take: The stack typically uses Node.js or Python backend with FFmpeg and taglib. The hard parts are reverse-engineering DRM-protected content streams, token extraction for services like Deezer/Tidal/Qobuz to fetch bit-perfect FLAC audio, fuzzy metadata matching between Spotify track IDs and third-party catalogs, and maintaining circumvention against platform anti-scraping measures.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Spotizerr, YouTube Music Premium downloaders, Deezer, Tidal
Concerns raised: Spotify API reliability issues, Network errors during downloads requiring restart, YouTube link matching less reliable than Spotify, Playlist fetching incomplete (95/98 tracks from 100+)
Feature requests: Better retry mechanism and UI for network errors, FLAC support without needing separate subscriptions, YouTube Music Premium equivalent
Competitors
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Attention rank: #82 of 458 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 141 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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