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The more they are obsessed with taking down youtube-dl, the more they advertise it and let other people know that it exists, the more I feel like I'm doing the
by blacklight 5y ago
The more they are obsessed with taking down youtube-dl, the more they advertise it and let other people know that it exists, the more I feel like I'm doing the right thing using it on a daily basis.
Seriously, we're talking of a tool whose purpose is to download publicly available videos. What's the big deal? It's not even used for music piracy, for God's sake. I've never seen anyone download their favourite album from YouTube videos and use ffmpeg to extract the mp3s. Most of the folks just use Spotify.
So what's the big deal? That if we use youtube-dl then we don't see ads and we don't get tracked? Oohh, actually that's the whole fcking point, you know? youtube-dl pisses lots of people in the majors not because it's used to illegally download musical content (I'm pretty sure that's only an insignificant fraction of its usage), but because it hurts their "new" way of doing revenue: ads, tracking, and more ads.
And you know what? I'm more than happy to hurt such a shtty way of doing revenue!
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- forinti 5y agoYou can download just the audio with --extract-audio --audio-format mp3
- atoav 5y agoYes, you can do that. I tend to use that for rare and hard to get music (e.g. obscure iranian 60s stuff). However cutting the full albums apart and tagging the resulting songs is serious work that I don't think a lot of people would do realistically in times of spotify.
- eulgro 5y agoYou can download and extract one audio file per song in a playlist easily, there you have the album.
- daef 5y agoi prefer -f251 which downloads opus @153k (48000Hz) (use -F to check available formats)
- sandos 5y agoI once used this tool for downloading music into SD cards for our car, this was when we were on road trips I sometimes capped out my data. But I used my spotify playlists to direct the youtube downloads, so I already had some paid access to the same music. Nowadays its just not a problem any more, and I simply use spotify directly.
- JGM_io 5y agoI download the music as a dj to try it out before buying the songs via beatport and such
- anonimamente 5y agoor bandcamp, my preference so that artists get the highest compensation for their work
- timwaagh 5y agoI used to do that, a long time ago.
- kolla 5y agoBut who sees ads on youtube, don't everyone use an ad-blocker?
- soco 5y agoOnly in browser. I'd be very happy to hear of an ad-blocking solution for the Android app... I mean I've heard of ad-blocking VPNs but other than that?
- kevincox 5y agoFirefox for Android is a pretty great client. There are also third party clients.
- ajyotirmay 5y agoThere are some solutions if you'rere willing to look into it. Not a 100% solution, but they work amazingly. I'm afraid of naming them here because not sure of the repercussions
- Zetaphor 5y agoCheck out YouTube Vanced. It has this and many other great features.
- nolroz 5y agoAlso Newpipe
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