At that time, though the Spotify window disappeared - but then it reappeared later when the entire download was completed. It was interesting that when the time for a commercial came, the downloading paused - the commercial played audibly - then the download resumed successfully. I haven't checked out whether I could get a better bit rate than 256K (392 would be nicer), but honestly, I can't hear the difference between those rates anyway. I DO wish there was a further option to append the track number (with leading zeroes 01, 02, etc.) to the front of the Song title (they DID capture the track# in the metadata. I was happy to see there was an option to set up a directory structure as Artist\Album\song. It's a bit slow - perhaps only 3 times faster than listening to each track, but it still beats capturing the song manually with, say, Audacity where you have to listen to the entire song in real-time. I searched for an album in Spotify and then dragged each song in the album to the AudFree download area, and it automatically started downloading.
I launched AudFree and it executed Spotify and logged me on just fine. I couldn't do that at first, then later (perhaps after registering?) it allowed me to do that. It was also difficult to change the output directory. I had already had problems with the MS version of Spotify (in that it didn't work), so the version I am running IS the one from Spotify itself, and the AudFree program had no trouble finding it on my Win10/64 system. Some kind of message flashed briefly on the screen, then disappeared (turns out if was minimized and I found it later and did the "confirm" that I wanted auto-updates off. Also, it was quirky to turn that feature off. For normal (paying customers) the auto-update feature would be a good thing - but not so nice for GAOTD members. There's a few quirky things about it, but overall it seems to work well. Overall, though, a very good offering from GAOTD.
My only concern is that Spotify might kill my account if it discovers that a non-premium account is downloading - although I AM hearing their advertising, so perhaps they won't mind.
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