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As a solution to (1) you can use youtube-dl https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ It supports downloading only the audio.

williamdclt 9y ago
I believe it downloads the whole video, then extract the sound. At least you're downloading only once, but one of the points of streaming music is not keeping the music on your disk at all. Plus, it's pretty illegal if I'm not mistaken! Plus, sound quality on youtube isn't very good
- zo1 9y ago
  From what I understand, the audio and video are simply different streams that you can selectively download from the youtube servers. So it is entirely possible to only download the audio, I've done it many times with youtube-dl.
4ad 9y ago
But why would you download a (probably illegal) rip that is poor quality, when the act of downloading and keeping the rip is probably illegal in itself (not exactly sure about that) from a platform that is notoriously unsuitable for music when you could just download high-quality release from a music tracker specially optimised for this use case? I mean, if you are ok with doing something (probably) illegal, why not get the best experience out of it?
- philh 9y ago
  In my case, because I know youtube and youtube-dl, and I haven't noticed the sound quality being bad, and I don't even know what a music tracker is.
- kuzimoto 9y ago
  I agree with your sentiments, but to play devil's advocate grabbing music from youtube protects you from DMCA notices from your ISP, is always available (no having to wait for seeds/peers on more obscure music), and is much safer (for an average person) where content on public trackers has some risk of containing malware/virus/etc.
- seanp2k2 9y ago
  Because I only listen to vaporwave that was pulled from SoundCloud.
giancarlostoro 9y ago
You could also use Atraci which streams off YouTube: https://github.com/Atraci/Atraci https://github.com/Atraci/Atraci
- hmhrex 9y ago
  Haven't seen this one before. That's an interesting idea. I might try this out.
- hmhrex 9y ago
  Haven't seen this one before. That's an interesting idea. I might try this out.
j_s 9y ago
Open source command line clients for specific streaming services inherit the catalog issues, but FYI: Pandora - https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar Spotify - https://github.com/plietar/librespot https://github.com/plietar/librespot
lucb1e 9y ago
Thanks for mentioning it, I love that tool (even got this on my phone in a Debian subsystem). Still, it's not suitable as a replacement for Spotify: the discovery element is too useful :/

williamdclt 9y ago

I believe it downloads the whole video, then extract the sound. At least you're downloading only once, but one of the points of streaming music is not keeping the music on your disk at all. Plus, it's pretty illegal if I'm not mistaken! Plus, sound quality on youtube isn't very good

zo1 9y ago
From what I understand, the audio and video are simply different streams that you can selectively download from the youtube servers. So it is entirely possible to only download the audio, I've done it many times with youtube-dl.

4ad 9y ago

But why would you download a (probably illegal) rip that is poor quality, when the act of downloading and keeping the rip is probably illegal in itself (not exactly sure about that) from a platform that is notoriously unsuitable for music when you could just download high-quality release from a music tracker specially optimised for this use case? I mean, if you are ok with doing something (probably) illegal, why not get the best experience out of it?

philh 9y ago
In my case, because I know youtube and youtube-dl, and I haven't noticed the sound quality being bad, and I don't even know what a music tracker is.
kuzimoto 9y ago
I agree with your sentiments, but to play devil's advocate grabbing music from youtube protects you from DMCA notices from your ISP, is always available (no having to wait for seeds/peers on more obscure music), and is much safer (for an average person) where content on public trackers has some risk of containing malware/virus/etc.
seanp2k2 9y ago
Because I only listen to vaporwave that was pulled from SoundCloud.

giancarlostoro 9y ago

You could also use Atraci which streams off YouTube: https://github.com/Atraci/Atraci https://github.com/Atraci/Atraci

hmhrex 9y ago
Haven't seen this one before. That's an interesting idea. I might try this out.
hmhrex 9y ago
Haven't seen this one before. That's an interesting idea. I might try this out.

j_s 9y ago

Open source command line clients for specific streaming services inherit the catalog issues, but FYI: Pandora - https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar Spotify - https://github.com/plietar/librespot https://github.com/plietar/librespot

lucb1e 9y ago

Thanks for mentioning it, I love that tool (even got this on my phone in a Debian subsystem). Still, it's not suitable as a replacement for Spotify: the discovery element is too useful :/