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I've found that most every song I've searched for on YouTube is on there in one form another (music video, lyrics video, etc). I have YouTube premium, so I don'

I've found that most every song I've searched for on YouTube is on there in one form another (music video, lyrics video, etc). I have YouTube premium, so I don't see ads, and can download the videos.

KomoD 3y ago
Yeah but YouTube premium doesn't work the same way, sure you can download but it doesn't give you an mp4 or anything?
- aPoCoMiLogin 3y ago
  its more like download in netflix/spotify where the downloaded content is on your device but not directly accessible, only via the application (or website). on the other hand, if you have yt premium, you have yt music
- rvnx 3y ago
  The YouTube frontend downloads the video file (the .mp4) from googlevideo.com/videoplayback and adds it to a locally playable playlist. However, the implementation is really wacky. If you are online and you go to watch a video that you have previously downloaded, then instead of serving you the locally cached version through the service worker, instead the frontend redownloads the whole video. Again, and again, every time you watch it. So if your goal is to save mobile data, or if your goal is to save a video that might possibly be deleted in the future, it is not working.
  - TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
    Does the YouTube app really download the video again each time you play it? I have noticed that downloaded videos always play in full quality. (In fact, that's the main reason I use downloads: play a short, stop it, go to history, download the short, then play it again. Because shorts have no quality control option, and also no download option except from the watch history. Shorts have a very weird and annoying UI. It's also impossible to add them to a playlist.)
zeta0134 3y ago
I mostly consume videogame soundtracks as my background music. My downloader script solves several problems: - I can play the entire OST on company / otherwise awful internet, where bandwidth is not free - The player doesn't pause midway through every 3rd track to obnoxiously ask me if I'm "still listening" - When the OST inevitably vanishes from youtube, I still have it to listen to (Mind that many of these OSTs are not available for purchase where I live, so this isn't a "vote with my wallet" sort of situation. Nintendo in particular is real bad about this.) There are other more elegant solutions, but unfortunately the means through which I've purchased the game's soundtrack the normal way (the game itself) is generally a poor means to actually listen to it. I would pay for this service if it existed; where's spotify for soundtracks? But no, it doesn't exist, so tech solutions get to deal with the problems. I do at least pay for YouTube Premium, that's the closest thing, but I'm not going to suffer its various inconveniences if there's a better option for the actual playback.
- williamcotton 3y ago
  What video games? Are they video games you played with friends and family? Do you associate meaningful life events with the games or the songs? I want to write a song about video game music and I’d like to, erhm, “borrow” parts of your life story. :D
  - HideousKojima 3y ago
    Sometimes they're just good songs? For example the soundtrack to Nier: Replicant could go head to head with anything big name Hollywood composers have written.
    - williamcotton 3y ago
      There's got to be some social reason why you're listening to Nier: Replicant as opposed to something else. I didn't expect any downvotes, but it seems I hit a nerve. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, that wasn't my intention, I just don't know anything about the kinds of people who would listen to video game soundtracks. I figured there might be some stories to share.

I've found that most every song I've searched for on YouTube is on there in one form another (music video, lyrics video, etc). I have YouTube premium, so I don't see ads, and can download the videos.

KomoD 3y ago

Yeah but YouTube premium doesn't work the same way, sure you can download but it doesn't give you an mp4 or anything?

aPoCoMiLogin 3y ago
its more like download in netflix/spotify where the downloaded content is on your device but not directly accessible, only via the application (or website). on the other hand, if you have yt premium, you have yt music
rvnx 3y ago
The YouTube frontend downloads the video file (the .mp4) from googlevideo.com/videoplayback and adds it to a locally playable playlist. However, the implementation is really wacky. If you are online and you go to watch a video that you have previously downloaded, then instead of serving you the locally cached version through the service worker, instead the frontend redownloads the whole video. Again, and again, every time you watch it. So if your goal is to save mobile data, or if your goal is to save a video that might possibly be deleted in the future, it is not working.
- TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
  Does the YouTube app really download the video again each time you play it? I have noticed that downloaded videos always play in full quality. (In fact, that's the main reason I use downloads: play a short, stop it, go to history, download the short, then play it again. Because shorts have no quality control option, and also no download option except from the watch history. Shorts have a very weird and annoying UI. It's also impossible to add them to a playlist.)

zeta0134 3y ago

I mostly consume videogame soundtracks as my background music. My downloader script solves several problems: - I can play the entire OST on company / otherwise awful internet, where bandwidth is not free - The player doesn't pause midway through every 3rd track to obnoxiously ask me if I'm "still listening" - When the OST inevitably vanishes from youtube, I still have it to listen to (Mind that many of these OSTs are not available for purchase where I live, so this isn't a "vote with my wallet" sort of situation. Nintendo in particular is real bad about this.) There are other more elegant solutions, but unfortunately the means through which I've purchased the game's soundtrack the normal way (the game itself) is generally a poor means to actually listen to it. I would pay for this service if it existed; where's spotify for soundtracks? But no, it doesn't exist, so tech solutions get to deal with the problems. I do at least pay for YouTube Premium, that's the closest thing, but I'm not going to suffer its various inconveniences if there's a better option for the actual playback.

williamcotton 3y ago
What video games? Are they video games you played with friends and family? Do you associate meaningful life events with the games or the songs? I want to write a song about video game music and I’d like to, erhm, “borrow” parts of your life story. :D
- HideousKojima 3y ago
  Sometimes they're just good songs? For example the soundtrack to Nier: Replicant could go head to head with anything big name Hollywood composers have written.
  - williamcotton 3y ago
    There's got to be some social reason why you're listening to Nier: Replicant as opposed to something else. I didn't expect any downvotes, but it seems I hit a nerve. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, that wasn't my intention, I just don't know anything about the kinds of people who would listen to video game soundtracks. I figured there might be some stories to share.