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Google Cracks Down on YouTube-to-MP3-Ripping Sites
- antihero 14y agoWho on earth would want some sort of horrible transcode of a transcode?
- fleitz 14y agoThe same sort of people who would watch 240p video.
- pwmanagerdied 14y agoYou're dating yourself. YouTube hasn't been limited to 240p videos for many years; they're rarer than 1080p videos these days.
- jps359 14y agoYou'd be surprised how many technology-illiterate people do these things.
- snookca 14y agoI admittedly have used these services to procure obscure tracks that aren't available via iTunes or other means. That band who did an a cappella cover? No download link on their site or anywhere else? Youtube to mp3.
- antihero 14y agoIn that case, it looks like the industry could much better fix the problem by providing legitimate means to get these tracks :)
- loudmax 14y agoYes, the audio quality of mp3s is much lower than a CD. This format will never catch on.
- duaneb 14y agoI don't know about transcodes, but there are often live recordings or rare recordings that I can only find on youtube.
- Splines 14y agoIf you grab the source video yourself you can demux the audio using ffmpeg (I've done this for some live performances that I wanted to listen to offline).
- slig 14y agoPeople that can't tell the diference between DVD quality and HD. People that listen to music using their crappy cellphone speaker.
- dpritchett 14y agoI used one to make a ringtone from a crowd reaction in a video gaming tournament video.
- lovskogen 14y agoStreet Fighter 2? :)
- dpritchett 14y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7hkwbKmBM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7hkwbKmBM
- lovskogen 14y agoThought so!
- fleitz 14y agoThe only thing this can do is increase the quality of MP3s on the internet. The audio is as heavily compressed as the video, not much point in ripping that.
- technoslut 14y ago>The audio is as heavily compressed as the video, not much point in ripping that. Kids don't care about the quality otherwise they wouldn't be taking this avenue in the first place. I can't help but think a service like Vevo is playing a big role in this along with the RIAA. Music videos are consistently the most watched videos on YouTube and Vevo has been making a big stink about leaving YouTube.
- eli 14y agoYou never taped a song off the radio?
- fleitz 14y agoYeah, but that was before '94 when I installed my first MP3 player, since then not too much. Mostly CD rips and downloads, I don't think I ripped anything after about '98.
- joshbaptiste 14y agoshrug.. youtube-dl + ffmpeg.
- ngokevin 14y agoyoutube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 -l LINK
- drcube 14y agoCan you still just copy and paste from your /tmp folder in Ubuntu? I can't do that on Arch, so I just use the FlashGot Firefox addon.
- gsa 14y agoNot anymore, a Flash upgrade broke that sometime ago.
- Toshio 14y agoI use the following script on Arch to do what you're looking to do: http://pastebin.com/9si8EdFQ http://pastebin.com/9si8EdFQ
- naner 14y agoQuite awhile ago Flash started "deleting" the file in /tmp as soon as it got the file handle. You can still get the file handle using 'lsof' while the video is playing. It would be easier to just use a tool like youtube-dl or clive (or a browser extension) to grab the videos, though.
- user49598 14y agoAnyone notice that these are no longer being taken down: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=full+album http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=full+album There are a lot of full albums on you tube now, many with track markers in the description.
- xgMz 14y agoI wonder if Google has a practical way to stopping them, reading from the article saying they've blocked the sites (by IP? ... so they'll use TOR?); I guess blocking is the best they can do aside from legal action (if that even works overseas)?