Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube Music user here. Fired up Windows Media Player for the first time in ages, and told it to scan my old folder of ripped CDs.
If you're Windows user maybe try lightweight option like foobar2000?
or WinAmp?
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gotta love that PornHub reply: https://imgz.org/igMu9iLo
Sorry it might be due to my age, but I don't understand this. What's the meaning behind the "Stonks" photo they posted?
Their stock just went up.. reddit wallstreetbets calls stocks, stonks because they claim they're autistic.
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#183I have a 2-hour-long YouTube video still open, it's continuing to load as I continue to watch it without issues, but new videos aren't working. That's an interesting clue: the CDN isn't down as some people are implying. Edit 45 min later: Everything appears to be working again, including YouTube TV.
given that the outage affects redirector.googlevideo.com and youtube.com/get_video_info, but as you say, not the f3--- .googlevideo.com domains serving the actual streams, i suspect they have problems with the database storing where streams are actually hosted.
In other words, the metadata service. The actual content servers are still up, so provided you know where the content is, you can still access it.
(Does anyone still remember when you could easily download videos from YT by simply replacing "watch" with "get_video" in the URL? I miss those days... when corporate greed hadn't gotten to where it is today.)
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#184Youtube DL and PeerTube here we come
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#185Cool, I came here to confirm that YT broken and not my local setup :-) HN is pretty reliable sometimes.
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#186Downdetector also shows increased error rates for Search, Play, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, Twitch… What’s going on?
I think it's just because Downdetector is getting tons of traffic which makes it think people are having more issues than usual with virtually everything. I haven't heard any actual people say Spotify, Twitter, or Twitch are down.
There are reports on reddit about inability to download apps from Play Store, but I cannot verify.
Doesn’t Downdetector count only users who click on “I have a problem with [service]”? It would seem dumb if all charts moved together any time there is a major outage of a single service.
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#187With the YouTube app I figured out we can watch new videos by starting a download to the local device... my 3 year old was starting to get very nervous that our bedtime routine was going to be disrupted
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#188Was wondering so looked up how much YouTube lost per second. > YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019. So plugged into wolfram alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ ? i=15.15+billion+dollars+per+number+of+seconds+in+a+year They lose about $480 per second or $1.7MM per hour. Yikes.
Why MM, is it the standard for million akin to "k" is for thousand?
"Mille" is French for 1,000. So MM = 1,000 * 1,000. M is also used in advertising, like CPM: Cost Per Mille.
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#189I’m able to successfully get a video to load and play by selecting it from the recommended videos of a video that fails to load.
Edit: looks like it might be back up now.
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#190This will be interesting and humbling for 'resilient services' advocates.. Nodes can be down but services will not go down..
I'd want to know what caused this. I'm guessing they're running on kubernetes, but it too early to tell what actually must have failed..
clearly there are points of failure and not sufficient backups to that point of failure..