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drunkensailor ,
@drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs

you guys use sites for that? I just use vpn + yt-dlp

Unabart ,
@Unabart@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Soulseek for life! There should be a documentary about this because…. how? How has this been able to go this strong for so long? One of the first installs on any new OS I spin up. And when it comes to supporting the artists? Live shows and merch, when possible.

FlavoredButtHair ,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, word of mouth. I love my band shirts. It’s always a great conversation starter. I have SXM, that’s how I learned about Motionless in White, Beartooth, Starset, and Ice Nine Kills.

But I also have my own collection on my 1tb sd card in my phone.

krolden ,
@krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

Because they dont advertise the fact that theyre a music sharing platform. Its the most basic possible p2p platform that can exist and they dont seek the laws attention like Napster did.

They also comply with requests to blacklist certain artist search results. Try searching for the Beatles on slsk, you dont get any results.

biscoot ,

My searches for Michael Jackson also gets zero hits which I thought was bizarre. This explains it

krolden ,
@krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

Search for album names

JuanR ,

I used to do lots of piracy back in the days. I am so glad those days are behind me and have not been big on the scene. What would be some sites to avoid to not fall in the trap of being a criminal. I love giving companies all of my money and do not ever want to go back to my old ways. Please help me with a nice list of things to avoid.

FlavoredButtHair ,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

You want a good paid VPN first. Mullvad is amazing.

callouscomic ,

VPNs see everything you do, and you pay them for it. I don’t understand how people don’t see the irony there.

brian ,

they in theory see everything someone does, but in the case of mullvad they have no idea who you are

UnfairUtan ,

Could you say how Mullvad differs from ProtonVPN? I have it with my mail subscription and it seems pretty good. I don’t know much about vpns though

brian ,

haven’t looked into protonvpn much, but it’s more or less a different company providing the same service. I imagine the differences aren’t too significant if you trust both companies

finkrat ,

You totally don’t want to just learn Linux command line and how to use the youtube-dl/yt-dlp packages through WSL or a Linux distro, that would deny corporations all of your money and be way too convenient. Thankfully it’s not intuitive to learn or there would be so much more piracy!

_I_ ,
@_I_@lemmy.world avatar

Yt-dlp is also available on Windows. No reason to spin up wsl or a Linux distro. There are also plenty of yt-dlp apps with GUI for those who don’t want to use a terminal.

finkrat ,

Didn’t realize, good to know, thank you!

LoganNineFingers ,

So right now, I have Radarr and Sonarr automate everything to plex.

Is there a way, I can automate:

I add to Spotify playlist (I would keep Spotify free as it is good at finding things for me)

Something detects it

Something downloads it

It shows up in PlexAmp

Ive been paying for Spotify premium because I need it for my job and I don’t want to spend a ton of time tweaking and naming things. I’d rather use PlexAmp and stop paying if possible but I’d like it to be easy (with a little work here and there) like my arr+plex setup.

Am I asking for something that doesn’t exist?

bloodjinn ,

I want to preface this by saying I have not tried this.

Lidarr is for music and their documentation says you can have import lists for spotify playlists.

LoganNineFingers ,

Hmmm… Maybe I’ll have to try this on my next holiday or long weekend and play around with it

experbia ,
@experbia@lemmy.world avatar

I have done this. it can be quite messy but it will definitely import the albums of all the music you have either liked or followed or in playlist in Spotify.

I’m not 100% that it will actually organize it as it was originally on Spotify, though, just that it adds the list’s contents as “wanted tracks”. I assume there’s some way to do this but I haven’t looked into it enough yet.

It’s still on my list, along with figuring out how to get Critical Role working with my Sonarr so I can be done with YouTube frontends…

JohnSmithon , (edited )

This is my time to shine !

I am currently working on this and have a prototype that I am testing : github.com/P6g9YHK6/SpotifyRipper

When I have the time to polish it I will dockerise the solution to have an automated spotify scraper ATM it is manually run but works pretty well 🥳

Pull requests are welcome for anything on the todo list 🫡 And github stars will help boost this project popularity 🥰

Icalasari ,

Oh thank god, some songs for some reason are ONLY on Spotify and it drives me nuts

JohnSmithon ,

This was one of the issue I had too… I could not make lidarr work with my music tastes so I spent a couple of days prototyping with spotdl to get this working correctly and ended with the current version of the ripper I run it once a week to get the new favs and weekly playlist

LoganNineFingers ,

This looks cool!

Unfortunately I don’t know anything about Python or docker… Thanks for the link, maybe I’ll try and figure this out on my next holiday.

JohnSmithon ,

Just released an update that should take care of most of the libraries requirement for you. Just follow the instructions and it should work

myxi ,
@myxi@feddit.nl avatar

Syncthing and Spotdl. Syncthing can sync folders over a network. Spotdl can download content from a playlist; it is multi-threaded and skips already existing or duplicate songs. It took me 20 minutes to automate everything. Syncthing and Spotdl start on startup and do their thing every 10 minutes.

Beegzoidberg ,

Link for you to view the article: 12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fsto…

Blxter OP ,
@Blxter@lemmy.zip avatar

Thanks ill be honest I did not know it was a pay walled article I had no pop ups or anything on my phone.

TheFriar ,

Is t it funny how this seems to be happening in every industry possible? And it’s always reported with sUcH sURpRisE!

Like, we are being abused by capitalists. It feels good to steal. Because they can’t stop taking more and more from us, squeezing us harder and harder.

When you present us with ease of use and a reasonable price point, we are happy with the trade. But they need their returns to keep growing, so they keep squeezing us harder. Their investors demand the line go up. So they squeeze us harder. They need to cut costs, so they squeeze us harder.

It never stops. So we turn to theft. Because they’ve literally left us no choice.

JasSmith ,

To be fair we’ve never had more choice, and music has almost never been more affordable. We used to buy singles for like $10+. Albums for $20+. Now there are several competing streaming services where we can listen to almost unlimited music each month for less than the cost of one album. Hell, YouTube Premium includes unlimited music steaming for free. Being an independent artist has never been easier, and you can find and pay for any music you like directly with millions of your favourite artists all over the world. The industry used to be entirely controlled by large labels. Honestly, I consider the industry far healthier than it used to be.

I pirate movies and shows because they refuse to create a Spotify-like service. Content is fragmented across a dozen services, they’re infested with ads, content quality keeps declining, the interfaces suck, and prices are outpacing inflation. I pay for Spotify because it’s still a good service for a reasonable price.

ADON15 ,

on top of that music streaming services dont have exclusives like tv/film so you aren’t forced to get multiple

Hootz ,

Wow so we call downloading YouTube piracy?

I guess most content creators are pirates.

zarkanian ,
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works avatar

Wow, that’s stupid. I consider ripping songs from YouTube to be the modern equivalent of taping songs off the radio. The quality is poor.

Hootz ,

Basically, but it’s low hanging fruit. Kids not ripping a 20gb disco from pirate bay at school but they most certainly will download a song off YouTube.

Shoot I remember back in the mid 2000s with my shitty mp3 player ripping music in any class with a computer.

SpiceDealer ,
@SpiceDealer@lemmy.world avatar

My philosophy goes like this: Pay for the hardware, get the content for free.

zarkanian ,
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works avatar

This is the way.

jastyty ,

This is the way

FeliXTV27 ,

That’s how it is in Switzerland: you pay a small piracy tax on every storage medium, in return downloading films and series is legal (but not uploading, though I never got a problem with torrenting)

Tom_bishop ,

Shared a news about piracy, link to paywall Wired.com. the irony

zarkanian ,
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works avatar

How do I pirate the article?

Texas_Hangover ,

Like this.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

apple killing ipods and deprioritising the itunes store probably contributed to this more than anything ironically

DivineChaos100 ,
@DivineChaos100@hexbear.net avatar

Soulseek still going strong yes.

Fleppensteijn ,
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl avatar

The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

This is not piracy. We’ve always been allowed to record e.g. radio and TV for personal use.

hardcoreufo ,

I think the RIAA has a different view on that. Huge push backs against recordable cassettes and VHS tapes when they were introduced.

ductjump ,

I could be wrong but didn’t a cut from blank tapes go to the industry tp ‘make up for the losses’?

Fleppensteijn ,
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl avatar

The Netherlands had a tax on blank CDs to “compensate” authors, essentially legalizing piracy (until the EU changed the rules).

ductjump ,

Ah that might have been it. I vaguely remember hearing about it at the time.

tigeruppercut ,

They def would’ve done radio drm if possible

Texas_Hangover ,

My dad always got a huge kick out of VHSing NFL games to watch later lol.

yamanii ,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Soulseek

daddybutter ,

Or Nicotine+ (a great Soulseek client)

UnfairUtan ,

What are the two things?

ByGourou ,

Share your music library, download directly from other users library. Both are compatible, just different clients.

downhomechunk ,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

It’s a direct p2p connection to a single user for downloads. It’s not swarm style like bittorrent. It’s also a great resource for really rare / out of print stuff.

I used it without a vpn for years and never got a single nastygram from my ISP. I think I started with a beta release back around 2000 because I used to be cool like that.

Trollception ,

Whoopty doo 13% < shits crazy now, napsters back in business

doctorn ,
@doctorn@r.nf avatar

wakes up in 2002

atlasraven31 ,

The Napster has you, Neo

victron ,
@victron@programming.dev avatar

Your comment just made me smile. Those were the days.

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