If you need a better audio endpoint because your sound card has issue with volume control while recording or encodes bad mp3 qualities, you can install a virtual device (like Virtual Audio Cable that comes with Spytify) to have recordings closer to the original Spotify quality.
How to isolate Spotify and Spytify to a different audio endpoint device to eliminate noise?īy using the Spytify setting Audio Device, you can move Spytify to a different audio endpoint and use the Windows 10 setting to move Spotify to the same audio endpoint. The way to use it properly is to isolate Spotify and Spytify on this virtual device to record better audio, and you can use the Spotify web app with a different account for your daily music needs while your playlist is being recorded, or just let Spytify record overnight. However, you won’t be able to hear anything since it’s a virtual device that has no physical output, unless you reroute the output to your main audio device by turning on the Windows option Listen to this device. If you change your default audio output (Audio icon in the taskbar) to this device, you will be able to record better quality with Spotify/Spytify. The selected audio device has to be the one that Spotify is set on. Go to Settings, at the far right of Audio Device, click on the Speakers button and the click on Install DriverĪfter installing the driver, it will appear in the audio device list. Spytify comes with a Virtual device that you can install from the app, or download it yourself: Virtual Audio Cable Device Virtual (Virtual Audio Cable) Your browser does not support the audio element. Decent (Crystal Sound 3) Your browser does not support the audio element. Normal (RealTek High Definition) Your browser does not support the audio element. Virtual devices don’t have to do the big round-trip to render sound to you through a physical device, they can bypass that and keep the original audio quality much longer when sending it to different endpoints.īelow is the difference of using a normal/low end audio device versus a decent/high end audio device versus a virtual device, all recorded at 2CH 24bits 44kHz using a Michael Bubble xmas song. In Spytify Settings tab, under Audio Device, you will find a list of hardware devices that emit sounds, but you can also add virtual devices to this list. Which audio endpoint device should I use for best recording quality? (Virtual Audio Cable)
You can increase the bitrate in Spytify settings, but if you have Spotify Free it normally delivers music to 160kbps and 320kbps on Premium. mp3 has a limitation of 2 channels (stereo) and a sample rate of 44,000 Hz, compare to.
If Spytify.exe cannot be found, make sure your security software did not remove it.
So to open the app, click on More Info then on Run anyway and the app should appear.
You just have to trust me or trust the code (available on GitHub). Spytify is an unknown publisher because I decide not to make profit out of it, I provide it for free, I’m not a company, so I have no good reason to pay Microsoft to get a developper license and remove that warning. They prompt that message to protect you and your PC against malwares and/or unknown publisher.