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Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by jsmthrowaway »

soundwave106 wrote: post #193
jsmthrowaway wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aspiring DJs do this, then play out the files they got from youtube-dl via Serato or whatever, then every other minimally competent DJ in the room immediately knows what’s happening based on how obviously shit it sounds. Practice mixing in headphones and playing room scale PA are two different ballgames, and when amplified, any youtube-dl format is as obvious to me as a file being ripped from source vinyl. YouTube do…

Now that's a strange rant. Not everyone who wants to download Youtube files to MP3 is downloading electronic dance music for the purpose of playing it live as a DJ. In my personal case, it tends to be relatively obscure classical music. Due to the "nature of the genre" there are quite a number of pieces that have never been studio recorded and exist only in OTA radio recordings, or are only available on long out-of-p…

> Now that's a strange rant.

It’s called “expanding a conversation with additional perspective that most of this audience is probably unfamiliar with,” including watching it happen to a close friend who thought she could get away with it, but sure, interpret me as angrily ranting at absolutely nobody in this audience because you skipped the “if” that qualifies my pronouns in the part that made this thread upset and would rather talk about your much more interesting obscure classical collection instead.

I love how stupid Hacker News thinks I am, and it’s telling me I’m on the right track in the conduct of my life. Feeling’s mutual, rest assured.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by swebs »

dannyw wrote: post #40
pwaai wrote: post #14

I just hit download and I can watch any movie on Premium, but i appreciate this tool as well

Those downloads get removed if the uploader deletes the video.

How does that work? Does it require giving Youtube access to your file system?

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by PretzelFisch »

robbrown451 wrote: post #31
mxfh wrote: post #18

Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, this is a godsend tool to archive approved channels to a local media server. This config file (with separate channel-list- and archive-files) template found here, has proven quite useful to me combined with some minimal batch job: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/858ny5/my_yout...

Another option is to embed youtube videos on your own web page (hosted locally or whatever). You don't need to download the actual videos, the ads tend to be banners (not ones that make you wait to view it). Works great for my 4 year old.

don't you still get recommended or autoplay started videos at the end of an embedded video? or is there a way to control that as well?

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by anderspitman »

leni536 wrote: post #203
thirdsun wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not familiar with the situation in hungary but isn't it more likely that your ISP is throttling or otherwise artificially limiting the connection to Youtube, Netflix and other services with bandwith-heavy content.

Well, they don't throttle torrent in any noticeable way (torrenting with 10-20 MB/s or even more is not uncommon). And torrenting is pretty active in Hungary. They also provide ipv6 addresses too, I really can't say anything bad about my ISP. But it could very well be them who do the throttling to Youtube, I can't any way verify that.

Try running it through a VPN. I recommend NordVPN these days. Had good luck with Torguard in the past as well.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by jsmthrowaway »

sbarre wrote: post #176
jsmthrowaway wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aspiring DJs do this, then play out the files they got from youtube-dl via Serato or whatever, then every other minimally competent DJ in the room immediately knows what’s happening based on how obviously shit it sounds. Practice mixing in headphones and playing room scale PA are two different ballgames, and when amplified, any youtube-dl format is as obvious to me as a file being ripped from source vinyl. YouTube do…

Geez, I'm pretty sure OP was talking about a mix playlist to play at home or for personal use, not for their professional DJ career aspirations.

I know they were. What’s your point?

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by jsmthrowaway »

chupasaurus wrote: post #164
jsmthrowaway wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aspiring DJs do this, then play out the files they got from youtube-dl via Serato or whatever, then every other minimally competent DJ in the room immediately knows what’s happening based on how obviously shit it sounds. Practice mixing in headphones and playing room scale PA are two different ballgames, and when amplified, any youtube-dl format is as obvious to me as a file being ripped from source vinyl. YouTube do…

> any youtube-dl format is as obvious to me as a file being ripped from source vinyl Since YT now encodes sound tracks in Opus 160 kbps, if upload was in any decent quality, it will be downloaded in it too.

Would you like a five minute lecture on frequency response and bandwidth of what you upload based on the dynamics compression, filtering, and other processing YouTube does to make videos sound good and all of which have nothing to do with a transport compression algorithm, but how said transport algorithms reduce bandwidth when double compressed because you’re probably not uploading 32-bit PCM to YouTube, and how none of that matters anyway because most people uploading to YouTube aren’t familiar with a spectrogram nor DC offset? (Seriously, one track I got via youtube-dl was the most offset I’d seen in my life. They either don’t fix it, or the fix goes horribly awry.)

I’d simply offer it but this thread thinks I’m an angry ranter so I’m making you not cower in fear out of respect.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by jaimehrubiks »

I created a somehow complete gui for youtube-dl, It is opensource in github and has a combination of youtube-dl, ffmpeg and mpv player. Written in java. It is called musicboo and I programmed it after learning java in my university. It has been working for some years perfectly with the automatic youtube-dl update system, although I have moved my backend many times preserving a domain.

http://musicboo.hontzakdio.com/

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by Fnoord »

severine wrote: post #179
nnain wrote: post #174

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Well, should we be listing the related Apps here? > the first rule of youtube-dl is not to talk about youtube-dl

There are ~40 hits for "youtube-dl" in Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=youtube-dl&c=apps But I agree that people might have mixed feelings on pointing to the ones that work better. I made another search, through DuckDuckGo, and got a hit that's not among those ~40 and looks good: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviddapp.o... Am I hurting them by linking, or any of you for adding f…

Problem is, just because something is "in the Play Store" doesn't mean it is harmless. It could, for example, contain trackers. So, yes, we should discuss and link them.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by MinusGix »

barking wrote: post #101

I presume this is only for the occasional thing that people are afraid will disappear from youtube or is there some other reason for downloading that I'm missing?

I use it because my internet at home is awful, and so I can either download it at home so I can watch it in one go later, or download a video when I am at a place with better internet.

Re: Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

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Post by gkya »

Lev1a wrote: post #201
gkya wrote: post #180

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Youtube wants me to concede too much JS execution on too many domains (I block strictly), or else I can not skip the ads. It becomes a huge annoyance when I'm watching my favourite TV show that's also uploaded to YT and I have the same idiotic Grammarly ad in my face every 10 minutes. But I can easily run mpv and watch, without looking at ads that are completely uninteresting and persistent enough to feel harassing t…

I assume from your comment you only use a script blocker (like uMatrix, Noscript, ...?) but not an actual ad blocker (I'd recommend uBlock Origin). That would make your grammarly problem go away pretty fast.

I use Ublock origin w/ dynamic blocking (i.e. I decide for each site the domains they can load stuff from), and only enable a handful domains to load only first party JS (or some trustable 3rd party for a couple web sites), so I don't think I need the ad blocker too. Also, browsing YT from the website and watcing from mpv is way more convenient and less resource intensive. But thanks for the info!
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