• 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Just use yt-dlp instead of relying on websites that shove ads in your face and may do what ever they want to the files you’re downloading?

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      8 months ago

      Why do people still download music from YouTube in 2024? The quality is awful and it’s not even the easiest method of music piracy.

      • Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 months ago

        it’s not even the easiest method of music piracy.

        What’s easier than pressing 2 buttons in my YouTube app?

        The quality is awful

        It’s perfectly acceptable for me

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        I download it from youtube because that’s where I found it, and I’m not entirely sure what’s easier than just copying/pasting the link of the page I’m already on. I’m very confident other methods have better quality, but easier is a big statement.

        • Footnote2669@lemmy.zip
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          8 months ago

          Plus, it’s more likely you’ll find music you want on YouTube than Spotify or wherever since the author just needs to upload a video

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            8 months ago

            Does it just add a download button on the YouTube video? Because copy/paste is a pretty hard process to beat for simplicity.

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              8 months ago

              Soulseek uses P2P filesharing. You open whatever software client you’re using, search for whatever you want (with any additional parameters you want) and download. If you ever used one of the various Deezer downloaders it is a very similar experience. It is certainly a lot easier than repeatedly copy/pasting YouTube URLs for every song, or needing to play every single song so you can access some little download extension button you’ve added.

              • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                8 months ago

                I mean, it means I have to search it elsewhere, but I can see the benefit if I already know a list of things I want. I actually do have to play each song I download because I find the music on youtube in the first place. I don’t know I want the song until I’ve heard it.

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        8 months ago

        Some music I like are fan covers/remixes that may only be on YouTube.

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      8 months ago

      It was possible to download lossless FLAC files (they got them straight from Deezer) though, so higher quality than anything downloaded from Youtube etc.

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      8 months ago

      YouTube is absolutely unacceptable quality. The difference is clearly audible even on $5 earbuds. I feel sorry for your ears if you don’t hear the difference, but the vast majority of those who care enough to download music will be able to tell the difference.

      I personally pay for Deezer HiFi and save the FLACs locally. Friends mostly do the same with Tidal, but both work well for this purpose.

      If you want to find FLACs without paying for a service you can check out rutracker. It has torrents for discographies from a lot of famous artists. Alternatively, you could find a stolen account for one of the previously mentioned services, but that goes too far for my morals because you’re hurting a normal person with a hacked account.

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      8 months ago

      Despite all the naysayers in the comments, this is the correct answer. No ad-riddled websites, no weird guis. just “yt-dlp < url of whatever you want to rip >” in bash.

      Lots of people responding to this need to acquaint themselves with the raw power of yt-dlp. It isn’t just for YouTube. You can rip Deezer and other streaming audio services. You can rip pretty much any video site. It even takes RSS and M3U8 links and will rip live streams.

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      8 months ago

      On Android I use Newpipe for downloading audio-only.

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      8 months ago

      But I want 320mbps and I don’t want the extra sounds that come with some music videos.

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        8 months ago

        Well I’ve found you can avoid the extra sounds as long as its available on YouTube music specifically, as that is a music specific platform but you have to only select from the songs section and not the Videos section. You get less selections than you would’ve before but not really since those extra ones weren’t even songs, but rather music videos.

        Also Lyric videos basically never have any sounds in them.

        (Doesn’t address the quality issues since many YouTube videos are limited in audio quality, I’ve found downloaders that can do it but it’s hit or miss).