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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

One of my favourite applications. I stopped paying for spotify and just use this to get music these days. Everything gets uploaded to youtube anyways.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Downloading music from YouTube will get you MP3s, but they will have gone through the YT compression algorithms.

Use Deemix instead. Downloads MP3s straight from the Deezer servers with all metadata and album art.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lucida.to would also be a pretty good choice, you can choose to download from either Deezer, Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Then seed it on Soulseek as a webrip

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're right, but it does still work.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Deemix? More like Mix Deez Nuts!

I'm sorry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's okay, it had to be done.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Does it automatically grab things like metadata (author, cover art, etc.) for you? And if it requires a flag, do you know it?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

I don't bother personally for the most part but it seems like you can do it via --embed-metadata, --parse-metadata, and --embed-thumbnail.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unless the artist only posts on YouTube, try soulseek. Most files have metadata already included, and if they don't, you can just download from another user.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

It’s very automatic with just pointing it at the media’s URL, but also highly configurable if you want.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely. Bar none. Here's my config for downloading best quality YT videos (but works for other sites too) if anyone wants to base theirs on it: https://pastebin.com/ba9sFURT

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe a little bit shameless plug from me, but I want point to my Bash script for Linux to make the daily yt-dlp life easier: https://github.com/thingsiplay/yt-dlp-lemon yt-dlp-lemon -h will show only a few options and yt-dlp-lemon -H shows everything the script supports.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh hey i saw you in the comments of a brodie robertson video

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Haha, hello there. World is small sometimes. :p

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I wrote my own web app in Python, using pytube-fix and its lightning fast. Great library. I found a recent screenshot that's a bit behind in commits but you get the idea.

Edit: I published the source code, please note there is a LOT of work left to do, but it works. https://codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafter/pytube-gui

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I didn't see anything like this image in the pytube-fix repo. Do you have a repo of the web interface somewhere? That looks really handy.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (25 children)

It's the main way I watch youtube now. After Piped and Newpipe stopped working for me across all devices, I only use 2 methods of watching Youtube now. Open in mpv (which is configured to use yt-dlp in the backend to make things faster), and download using yt-dlp. So it's key to me keeping on watching Youtube. Recently, I've started getting ads showing up even on Mobile Vivaldi, so no more YT on my phone.

So my new workflow is to use Piped to find a video, then copy the end of the link and type "yt-dlp " in a terminal, wait for the video(s) to download, and open in mpv.

OR

In some cases, use Qutebrowser, with a custom keybind to open a video in mpv.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Newpipe works fine for me. They always fix it almost immediately.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

yt-dlp is great, but if you need to archive playlists automatically, want a repository, or otherwise prefer a gui I would recommend TubeArchivist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

(Which itself uses yt-dlp)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have been using Jdownloader2 for years.. I don’t know what the differences are, but might be an option for people who want something GUI based

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

If you need a gui or are trying to monitor playlists I would recommend TubeArchivist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

If you use it frequently, I suggest getting a GUI that have profiles or remember options so you don't have to mess with commands all the time. I wrote my own little command line wrspper which is Windows only since I don't have Linux to test on. Though it shouldn't take much effort to add support.

Makes it much more convenient when you don't have to specify things like archive (ignore duplicates), filename to be "artist - title" (where possible), download destination, etc. Just alt-tab, Ctrl-v, Enter. And the download is running. And mine also has parallel downloads and queue for when you got many slow downloads.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I tried a few times, but the video and audio are often out of sync. Anyone have this issue?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Strange. I downloaded thousands of videos with this tool (but just watched a handful of them) and never noticed an out of sync. Can you point me to a video I can download and test where you have this issue? Is it a new issue? Maybe Google is trolling us or you or your region.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll take anything with a GUI instead.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All of the good video downloaders are just a wrapper for using this, so it's not really "instead".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is something I cant live without

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it work for movies that "require you to sign in to verify your age"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

This is wonderful, I've been struggling with piped for some time now, it's always asking me to sign in to confirm that I'm not a bot. Also it's showing me videos in very low quality and often it stops loading halfway through the video. With this I get to see good quality videos once more, without unwanted pauses and without financing yt in any way. Great!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I tried to download some videos from Reddit using YT-DLP and it didn't work, I think maybe because Reddit limited access

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I made a script for grabbing reddit videos that's been working pretty well for me, needs Babashka to run https://babashka.org/

#!/usr/bin/env bb
(require '[clojure.java.shell :refer [sh]]
         '[clojure.string :as string]
         '[cheshire.core :as cheshire]
         '[org.httpkit.client :as http]
         '[clojure.walk :as walk])

(defn http-get [url]
  (-> @(http/get url {})
      :body))

(defn find-base-url [data]
  (let [results (atom [])]
    (walk/postwalk
     (fn [node]
       (when (and (string? node) (.contains node "DASH"))
         (swap! results conj node))
       node)
     data)
    (some-> @results first (string/replace #"DASH_[0-9]+\.mp4" ""))))

(defn find-best-quality [names audio?]
  (->> ((if audio? filter remove) #(.contains (.toLowerCase %) "audio") names)
       (sort-by
        (fn [n]
          (-> n
              (string/replace #"\.mp4" "")
              (string/replace #"[a-zA-Z_]" "")
              (Integer/parseInt))))
       (last)))

(defn find-parts [base-url data]
  (let [url (atom nil)
        _ (walk/prewalk
           (fn [node]
             (when (and (map? node)
                        (contains? node :dash_url))
               (reset! url (:dash_url node)))
             node)
           data)
        xml (http-get @url)
        parts (->> (re-seq #"<BaseURL>(.*?)</BaseURL>" xml) (map second))
        best-video (find-best-quality parts false)
        best-audio (find-best-quality parts true)]
    [(str base-url best-video) (str base-url best-audio)]))

(defn filename [url]
  (let [idx (inc (.lastIndexOf url "/"))]
    (subs url idx)))

(defn tsname []
  (str "video-" (System/currentTimeMillis) ".mp4"))

(let [data (-> (first *command-line-args*) (str ".json") http-get (cheshire/decode true)) 
      base-url (find-base-url data)
      [video-url audio-url] (find-parts base-url data)
      video-file (filename video-url)
      audio-file (filename audio-url)]
  (sh "wget" video-url)
  (sh "wget" audio-url)
  (sh "ffmpeg" "-i" video-file "-stream_loop" "-1" "-i" audio-file "-shortest" "-map" "0:v:0" "-map" "1:a:0" "-y" (tsname))
  (sh "rm" audio-file video-file))
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

You might also look at gallery-dl

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