Example 1:
Right during the pandemic, TFI (French TV) put up all past seasons of its show ‘Star Academy’. It was something I have been trying to get hold of but did not have any luck. As soon as it popped I thought I got it all. (2 years ago). Today I found out I was missing the first season (8 in total) and went to try to grab it. ALL seasons have now been removed. I am quite pissed at it!
Example 2:
A user upscaled Britney Spear music videos using AI. The results were mind blowing. I grabbed all the videos I could (official ones are 480p/720 p max limited). Less than 1 week later, the content was gone…forever.
Example 3: (Non YT)
Not YT. Koh Lanta (French equivalent of Survivor) is aired on french TV (TFI again). As soon as the season is over, they take it down. You are unable to rewatch/watch it if you missed the air/stream time. ALL past seasons are also not available and that spans to about 20+ years of contents and 30+seasons. Same applies to US Survivor but to a lesser extent. And you need to keep paying to ‘stream’ it.
Conclusion:
Always archive media you want to rewatch/collect. Streaming is not your friend. It is just another way of controlling content distribution, tying you up to the ‘subscription’ slavery model instead of owning your contents and worse, down the line downright CENSORING or MODIFYING contents to fit whatever garbage narrative is currently en vogue.
Stay focused brothers!
This is why I save all music/audiobooks/etc. In flac from deezer. Its so fucked up if theres something coming to mind which you want so Bad after remembering it just to Disco ver its gone.
Indeed, so many videos I took for granted disappeared later. Max the storage, max the network speed… hoard everything!
Tu sauvegarde la Star Académie !!! Mais honte à toi ! C’est déjà assez dur comme ça, même sans TV d’essayer d’y échapper, aux pubs en ville, et leurs reprises de merdes à la radio… Et toi tu sauvegarde ça sur ton setup de geek ! Mais vas marcher sur des Lego !!! C’est dingue ça !!!
Bon OK Koh Lanta, je peux comprendre, entre les aventuriers toujours plus dingues à chaque saison et les changements de règles toujours inattendus de Denis, ça reste ce qu’il y a de mieux sur TF1.
Mais bordel, la Star Ac…
J’ai 31 ans, déjà quand l’autre grognasse Bretonne de Nolwenn Leroy a gagné j’en avais déjà marre (saison 3 je crois ?), j’avais 12 ans à l’époque.
S’il te plaît OP, laisse donc cette merde mourir dans les oubliettes de TF1. Puisse qu’aucun archéologue dans le futur, tomber sur cette daube et prétendre que “c’était la musique populaire en ce temps là”.
Si tu veux sauvegarder des émissions ou D ela musique, choisis au moins du contenu audible et de bon goût, s’il te plaît !
Qui t’a fait du mal ?
La femme chocolat avec sa voix de canard. Je l’ai subis tout un été en colo…
Dès que je l’entends, j’ai des visions de Vietnam qui me reviennent en tête…
Plus jamais ça, PLUS JAMAIS CAAA !!!
Il y a des gens ici qui ont pris mon post au 1er degré alors je pose ça là => /S
r/fuckthes
C’est de la nostalgie. J’ai grandi dans la saison 1-4 de la star ac :) Mais chacun ses choix…
Ce qui est « de la merde » pour toi, n’est pas forcément le cas pour tout le monde. Je suis sûr que tu sauves « de la merde » aussi. Ton opinion sur ce qui est audible ou pas on en a absolument rien à branler.
I have 10-12 channels I back up. I have a windows task schedule to run YT-DLP every 12 hours on each channel and they are spaced out as much as I can so there is as little overlap as possible and the ones that do are the ones that done update regularly.
i have (checks drive) about 4 TIB of archived youtube content, there is a non zero chance i have something you want if you like the same stuff i do lol.
Somewhere between 7-14 thousand videos. I havent checked the real number.
It’s content i like mostly, with some definite deletions later on. Archived for posterity since if i don’t do it nobody else will, even though unlikely to go bunk. It could happen someday :)
I learned this one the hard way. I am an NBA fan and YouTube used to be a bastion of full games from 80 - early 2000s.
I started archiving, but then the Last Dance happened and the NBA scrubbed the Internet of all old full games.
I got half way through backing up all the 90s bulls championships before the purge and it still bugs me.
It’s annoying when you know they where there at some point and you just never got to them. At least they actually published som classic games on YT during the pandemic and most (all?) of them are still there. I have archived them of course :)
A user upscaled Britney Spear music videos using AI.
Care to share ? :D
I basically throw every YT video I watch into TubeArchivist. The browser extension makes this a single click. Currently have over 5TB of YT videos saved, including whole channels.
A reminder for people in the US who may be concerned, the same time shifting principle from this SCOTUS decision applies to saving streaming content. Simply, if you had legal access to the content at one point in time, you are allowed to time shift by recording and playing back for personal use at another point in time.
!IANAL YMMV!<
you can setup a cron job to run yt-dlp with a link to your “liked videos” playlist periodically
Sigh, I used to. But have run out of storage space. I’m feeling very anxious.
I (finally!) installed Tube Archivist last week and went through my library of already archived YT videos and saved them manually in TA (it’s the easiest way if you haven’t saved the metadata to go with the video, which I hadn’t for the oldest videos). Out of almost 1000 videos over five years or so, maybe 5% have gone private or is gone from YT. And it was mostly videos I really wanted to keep. Now comes the dirty work of trying to find the metadata for those missing videos since I do have them locally. I have done some research around how to do it, but if anyone has actually figured it out it would be nice to know!
Greetings ye, I still am lamenting the long-ago deletion of that “Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy” video, in which “Nigh of Fire” is synchronized onto the film’s opening vehicle-chase; such was the means that I was formally introduced into Euro’beat. -__-
~Waz
They say there’s a server with everything on it. I don’t know if it’s true but I hear a lot about google just hoarding everything. I assume most of the big companies have offset archives in storage for that later day. They keep them private for reasons. Unlocking them takes skill, guidance, and friendships. You won’t get into any of those rich peoples servers without some clean tea bargaining that’s for sure. S as though some of us are crazy enough to just convince them to open up the whole thing in just a few sweet ledgers of conversation. Call it human instinct. But it’s true. We’re all just people on this world. If the ends meet, well, maybe we’ll just get all that data we’ve been asking for and get to have a drunken party afterwards! Ya know? Anyways…good luck!
it’s just such a shame that yt liked playlist got completely privated some years ago so you can’t automatically download everything