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From link
to FLAC.

High-quality tracks. Ready to download.

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A silver vinyl record emerging from a translucent Flackey sleeve

What’s new

Recently added to Flackey.

See it in action

Paste a link. Get the FLAC.

Or paste a whole Playlist from Spotify or YouTube.

Several versions? Hear each one before you choose.

How does it work

Paste a link.
Get the best-quality track.

  1. 01

    Paste a link.

    Add a YouTube, YouTube Music or Spotify track or playlist.

  2. 02

    Find the best copy.

    Flackey searches your connected sources for the right recording.

  3. 03

    Download with confidence.

    The audio is verified before you get it, with lossless FLAC whenever available.

    See how verification works

How we verify audio

A FLAC label
isn’t proof.

Flackey looks inside every file before accepting it. A renamed or upscaled track doesn’t pass just because its filename says FLAC.

  1. 01

    Confirm the recording.

    Chromaprint compares the fingerprint of your link’s own audio (or a 30-second preview of the matched record) with the downloaded file to make sure it’s the same track and version.

  2. 02

    Inspect the spectrum.

    Flackey analyzes the frequencies in the audio to spot a lossy file disguised inside a lossless container.

  3. 03

    Enforce the quality floor.

    Fake lossless files, MP3s below 320 kbps and 320 kbps MP3s upscaled from a lower bitrate are rejected. You get the best verified source Flackey can find.

Accepted Real lossless — content up to 21.8 kHz
Rejected An MP3 renamed to .flac — stops at 16 kHz
Frequency runs bottom to top, time scrolls left to right. A real lossless file carries content all the way up; an MP3 throws the top octave away to save space, and renaming it to .flac doesn't put it back. That empty band is what Flackey looks for. Illustration — not a recording of a specific track.

About Flackey

We didn’t reinvent music sharing.
We made it easier.

Flackey is powered by Soulseek, an independent, community-powered network where music lovers share rare and high-quality recordings directly with one another. Flackey takes part in that exchange by sharing your downloaded tracks back with the network. When a lossless copy isn’t available, it falls back to a verified 320 kbps MP3 from Deezer.

We didn’t invent the wheel—we’re making these great sources more accessible. Flackey will grow around what its users actually ask for.

Explore the project

Help shape Flackey

Found a problem?
Tell us in plain language.

You don’t need to be a developer. Choose what you want to share and GitHub will guide you through a short form. Or use Report a bug inside the app: it writes the email and saves a diagnostics file for you to drag in. Nothing is sent until you press Send.

Report a bugSomething didn’t work as expected. Ask a questionGet help using Flackey. Request a featureTell us what would make Flackey better.

Release notes

What shipped, and when.

The latest release, straight from its GitHub notes. The full history is on GitHub.

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Download for Mac

Apple Silicon only (M1 or newer) · macOS 12 or newer

Intel Macs are not supported.

The installer isn’t signed with an Apple certificate, so macOS warns you once. Here’s the 30-second fix. SHA-256 checksum

Please read Installing on a Mac

  1. Download and open Flackey.pkg.
  2. macOS will block it the first time — see below. This is expected.
  3. Follow the macOS Installer steps. Flackey is placed in Applications.
  4. Open Flackey and connect Telegram, Soulseek, or both.

macOS will say it can’t verify Flackey

Flackey isn’t notarized yet, which needs a paid Apple Developer account. macOS blocks anything unnotarized by default, so you’ll see this the first time you open the installer:

Click “Done.” “Move to Trash” is the blue default button, and it deletes the installer you just downloaded.

Then allow it once:

  1. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, and scroll down to Security.
  2. Next to “Flackey.pkg was blocked to protect your Mac,” click Open Anyway.
  3. Authenticate with Touch ID or your password.
  4. Click Open Anyway once more when the warning comes back. The installer then runs normally.

If you don’t see an “Open Anyway” button, it has expired — it only appears for about an hour after macOS blocks something. Double-click Flackey.pkg again, click Done, and go straight back to Privacy & Security.

On macOS 14 and earlier you could control-click the installer and choose Open. macOS 15 removed that, so Privacy & Security is now the only route.

Rather not take our word for it? Flackey is open source — you can read the code and build it yourself.