Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters

Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by bryanrasmussen on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:03PM (#29928273)

I just assume they are about 5+ years behind most of the population because in this kind of media stuff I tend to be about 4 years behind the population and a little over a year ago I decided ah, this using youtube-dl to download music etc. and rip it with ffmpeg and save it to my iphone is sort of a hassle I guess I will get that damn spotify membership like everyone else.

I mean obviously I am not the last person to make this decision, but I have a feeling that the population yet to do so are vanishingly small.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by Shared404 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:59PM (#29928758)

> using youtube-dl to download music etc. and rip it with ffmpeg

For those who don't know, youtube-dl can do this oob if ffmpeg is installed:

  youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format <best|mp3|ogg|*> <url>

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by emmfr on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:20AM (#29934688)

Some websites even make audio streams available separately. You can learn about those with the -F flag, and then select an audio stream with the -f flag. E.g. on youtube, you can use

    [youtube-dl | yt-dlp] -f 140 <url>

to download 128k mpeg4 audio.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by nine_k on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:49PM (#29929160)

You may be surprised that Spotify may have rather large holes in its coverage, and these holes are also dynamic: things recently available may become unavailable without notice.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by Mezzie on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:18PM (#29929857)

I like to work to classic video game soundtracks. Streaming services are garbage for those, but YT is pretty good. You have to play whack a mole with copyright strikes, but somebody will upload most things. It's also the best way to listen to actual game music (the music designed to help you focus) as opposed to orchestral remasters, remixes, homages, etc.

RIP my most recent favorite Zelda background music vid.

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Re:Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters by bryanrasmussen on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:21AM (#29931187)

I may have noticed that there are small holes, I suppose most of the things if they became unavailable I wouldn't notice as I practice the one big playlist method.

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