Rialta

Audials Tunebyte does work best, I found, it installs a separate driver (actually 28 of them), for 28 recording slots. Recording from Spotify into Audials allows Audials to separate tracks with the correct names. You can play an entire artist from beginning to end while having Audials record, separate, and tag tracks. And there is no dip in the frequency response at 450hz. It works for me anyway.

Thanks, I have Spotify Premium (only 10 US dollars a month), which does have an 'offline mode'..so I don't see what the big deal is. I don't do it for personal profit, it's just like back in the day when you would use a VCR to record TV shows. No difference. Unfortunately, AHP is only for Mac, but Total Recorder might work. I'll try it, but the dip in frequency response is probably something I'll just have to live with for the time being. I also use Sound Forge 11 with the Izotope suite of plugins, so I can get it pretty close to the original recording. By the way, Youtube does have several recordings in DSD, even a few in DSD256, and they all sound fantastic. These are native recordings, not 'upsampled' to that frequency.

Whenever I record audio from Youtube or Spotify, The recording normally sounds thin and without body. I look at the frequency spectrum in Har-Bal, and there is a pronounced dip in the frequency at around 460hz and nearby frequencies. I record using Audacity at 24/176.4, I have not tried to record at 16/44.1 yet, but I don't think it would make any difference, it happens no matter what website I go to. I have used Sound Forge as well, the same dip. Of course, I can correct for that dip in Har-Bal, but I am not going to know what the original frequency spectrum is, so I have to do the best I can. I normally download classical or jazz music either at DSD or high-res PCM on Youtube. The songs themselves sound fantastic when I finish recording, very little noise, but again, they sound relatively hollow and thin. Do other people experience the same thing? Is there any way to correct for that, stop it from happening? Maybe it is the built-in sound card?! Thanks to all, I am new to downloading from websites, but not to being an audiophile.