From 195d783bcf05dff3ad6aaf6d931a25d8b9150b86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Canal <56410215+Superredstone@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:33:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add disclaimer to readme Clarified project origins and limitations regarding Amazon and Qobuz downloads. --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2c25937..5c61585 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@

+> [!IMPORTANT] +> This project was originally based on [SpotiFLAC](github.com/afkarxyz/SpotiFLAC) which did not integrate a CLI and [the developer is not willing to add support for it](https://github.com/afkarxyz/SpotiFLAC/pull/381#issuecomment-3888433673). +> +> The code was a mess and not modular at all, which made adding new features painful. It was full of bad design choices. One of those bad design choices was not informing users how songs were actually downloaded. Tracks from Amazon were downloaded using what I later discovered to be closed-source APIs as M4A files, and then converted to FLAC with FFmpeg, which significantly reduced the quality. Qobuz as a source never existed in the first place, everything was downloaded either from Tidal or Amazon. +> +> For these reasons, I'm not going to support Amazon and Qobuz downloads until someone finds a better way to handle this. + Spotify downloader with playlist sync in mind. ## Usage