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Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

#101

Anybody else getting this error constantly? you-get: [error] oops, something went wrong. you-get: don't panic, c'est la vie. please try the following steps: you-get: (1) Rule out any network problem. you-get: (2) Make sure you-get is up-to-date. you-get: (3) Check if the issue is already known, on you-get: https://github.com/soimort/you-get/wiki/Known-Bugs you-get: https://github.com/soimort/you-get/issues you-get: (…

Same error, not work at all.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

#102
post #41

For a while I had expensive internet and low bandwidth, but I loved listening to music and lectures on YouTube. At some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0] youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) has a flag, I believe -G, which gives you the URL(s) for the requested format/quality. I used the command line on my computer and put the link in VLC. On my phone I had this elaborat…

Brave Mobile browser allows turning on background video audio thus eliminating the need for YouTube Premium and similar subscriptions.

This works great, thank you.

For others: Settings > Media > Enable Background Audio

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

#103

It seems they do not want you to report an issue without an accompanying fix for it. > If you would like to report a problem you find when using you-get, please open a Pull Request, which should include [snip] Can't say I've encountered this before.

The Chinese version of the text has an extra header line that translates to "to prevent abuse via GitHub Issues, we are not accepting general issues". An earlier commit has this for the English text: `you-get` is currently experimenting with an aggressive approach to handling issues. Namely, a bug report must be addressed with some code via a pull request. https://github.com/soimort/you-get/commit/75b44b83826b3c2d9a.…

Kind of makes sense, it weeds out all of the people who didn't read the manual.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

#104
post #41

For a while I had expensive internet and low bandwidth, but I loved listening to music and lectures on YouTube. At some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0] youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) has a flag, I believe -G, which gives you the URL(s) for the requested format/quality. I used the command line on my computer and put the link in VLC. On my phone I had this elaborat…

Seems like youtube-dl doesn't work anymore. I had to use a fork yt-dlp. Always makes me nervous hopping from one project to another like that, but seems like it's commonly used at least.

youtube-dl has been dead for many years now; it's a lot like XFree86, where the original project is a zombie with very few real users, but the original maintainers refuse to acknowledge reality and just shutter the thing, so newcomers get confused. Everyone's moved to yt-dlp now.

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

#105
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the point of converting it to mp3? AAC inside an m4a container usually has better sound quality than similarly compressed mp3, and definitely better than reencoding.

MP3 is accepted by far more players.

Do you have examples of this that aren't 20+ years old?

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

#106

I’m not sure I understand why Bandcamp is on the list of supported sites: they allow you to just download the files on the condition you first pay the artist for them. The fact you can download it with this tool is because the artist is letting you listen to it for free before buying it. Downloading it with this tool seems totally unnecessary and a bit of a jerk move. Bandcamp hosts mostly small and independent artis…

At what income level do pirates consider it immoral/moral to pirate something?

Different pirates have different moral codes regarding piracy; there is no standard.

Personally, I consider it immoral to pirate Windows without a very good reason (which doesn't include "I like using Windows", or "I want to play game X" or "I want to use the enterprise version which doesn't have baked-in ads").

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

#107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all of us agree that artists should charge for their products.

Not everyone agrees supermarkets should charge for groceries.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060201064815/https://www.wired...

Re: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MP3 is accepted by far more players.

Do you have examples of this that aren't 20+ years old?

Many of the little generic MP3 player modules that cost next to nothing will play MP3 (obviously) and WAV, and sometimes OGG and WMA, but AAC support is relatively rare.
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