Does Spotify have a way to see if your computer is recording with your DAC’s stereo mix? And if so, is there a way around it?
Spotify cannot tell if you record a song. So no, it won’t get you banned. But as others have said, OSes have built in piracy protection.
With that said, it’s a terrible way to pirate songs. You can find most anything on torrents. Grab yourself some nice flac rips and encode them to a nice AAC format. Spotify uses really shitty encodes, you’re not getting lossless through them.
On Windows, there is a Secure Audio Path API to prevent interception of the audio signal. Not sure if macOS has something similar, though it can prevent screenshotting of DRMed video. On Linux, any such protection is probably impossible unless Spotify requires a kernel module.
Note that the audio quality on Spotify is not very high (256kbps .ogg, I think), so anything thus recorded is going to sound lossy, especially after you recompress it a second time.
Tidal-dl ftw
Use a Gmail account; they are quick to block users on the basis that it might be a “spam account”.
I have been using ProtonMail for a while with their service. The moment you log out for a while or don’t use the app often, the account becomes no longer accessible.
It’s about data mining; they’re greedy and corrupt!
