Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by rhaps0dy on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:52AM (#14967018)

As a solution to (1) you can use youtube-dl https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

It supports downloading only the audio.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by 4ad on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:52AM (#14967322)

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?

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by philh on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:41AM (#14967568)

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.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by kuzimoto on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:31AM (#14970172)

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.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by seanp2k2 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:01PM (#14980999)

Because I only listen to vaporwave that was pulled from SoundCloud.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by j_s on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:05AM (#14968299)

Open source command line clients for specific streaming services inherit the catalog issues, but FYI:

Pandora - https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar

Spotify - https://github.com/plietar/librespot

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by giancarlostoro on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:00AM (#14967373)

You could also use Atraci which streams off YouTube:

https://github.com/Atraci/Atraci

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by hmhrex on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:23AM (#14967862)

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

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by williamdclt on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:48AM (#14967300)

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

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by zo1 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:53AM (#14968779)

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.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by lucb1e on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:23PM (#14973780)

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 :/

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