It’s a hell of a lot more convenient to go to a shady site with an adblocker installed than install/update Python and a couple command line packages before manually performing conversion yourself.
“A couple command line packages”, well, since both yt-dlp and ffmpeg are command line tools and two technically qualifies as “a couple”, this is technically correct, but making it seem like much more of a big deal than it is at the same time.
Also, you do not have to install Python for any of this. Never mind having Python installed is a good idea anyway.
yt-dlp has the -x option to extract the audio, and as far as I can tell it doesn’t reencode which is fast. Ripping music from youtube is a single command. yt-dlp -x url
This has the same vibes as one of those commercials that tries to sell a convoluted single use kitchen tool by showing a bunch of people too disingenuously incompetent to handle the established standard, actually simple, way of doing it.
A lot of fucking nerds are replying to you, but here’s a way I use yt-dlp that’s much more convenient than messing around with weird sites:
I want to keep local copies of streams from this one channel. I have a folder all the videos go in and when I run yt-dlp, I use the “—download-archive filename.txt” option. When yt-dlp runs on the stream playlist link with that option, it first checks which videos on the list are already downloaded and only gets the ones that aren’t present then adds them to the filename.txt.
Of course, I don’t run yt-dlp anymore, the computer does it twice a day automatically. If I did, I have another .txt in the directory that has the full command with the playlist link and all the options.
If you’re making any significant use of weird sites to download stuff from platforms, it’s worth it to learn and use yt-dlp. Feel free to holler at me if you want to get it working.
It’s a hell of a lot more convenient to go to a shady site with an adblocker installed than install/update Python and a couple command line packages before manually performing conversion yourself.
You can yt-dlg right off the microsoft store on windows which is just a straight up GUI for yt-dlp.
rarely use the cli anymore. the gui works pretty well.
“A couple command line packages”, well, since both yt-dlp and ffmpeg are command line tools and two technically qualifies as “a couple”, this is technically correct, but making it seem like much more of a big deal than it is at the same time.
Also, you do not have to install Python for any of this. Never mind having Python installed is a good idea anyway.
two doesnt ‘qualify’ as a couple. two IS couple. a couple is two
yt-dlphas the-xoption to extract the audio, and as far as I can tell it doesn’t reencode which is fast. Ripping music from youtube is a single command.yt-dlp -x urlTrue, but it needs ffmpeg in its path to do that.
This has the same vibes as one of those commercials that tries to sell a convoluted single use kitchen tool by showing a bunch of people too disingenuously incompetent to handle the established standard, actually simple, way of doing it.
https://youtu.be/qM4zMofsI7w?
This sort of thing. Make the simple problem seem impossible to solve, so the useless product feels more necessary.
/r/wheredidthesodago, one of my old stomping grounds, was dedicated to this
And then still get age-gated sometimes.
A lot of fucking nerds are replying to you, but here’s a way I use yt-dlp that’s much more convenient than messing around with weird sites:
I want to keep local copies of streams from this one channel. I have a folder all the videos go in and when I run yt-dlp, I use the “—download-archive filename.txt” option. When yt-dlp runs on the stream playlist link with that option, it first checks which videos on the list are already downloaded and only gets the ones that aren’t present then adds them to the filename.txt.
Of course, I don’t run yt-dlp anymore, the computer does it twice a day automatically. If I did, I have another .txt in the directory that has the full command with the playlist link and all the options.
If you’re making any significant use of weird sites to download stuff from platforms, it’s worth it to learn and use yt-dlp. Feel free to holler at me if you want to get it working.
on linux at least, its one command to install, one command to run. worth the ‘effort’