• waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1142·
    11 months ago

    More people need to learn about yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Can’t talk about the seedy anime websites, but youtube-mp3 conversion is so easily done yourself without havaing to visit any virus-pushing sites once you figure out how.

    • wander1236@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      594·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • CalOtsu@kbin.social
        29·
        11 months ago

        You can yt-dlg right off the microsoft store on windows which is just a straight up GUI for yt-dlp.

      • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        296·
        11 months ago

        “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.

        • lseif@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          12·
          11 months ago

          two doesnt ‘qualify’ as a couple. two IS couple. a couple is two

      • eah@kbin.social
        13·
        11 months ago

        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

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • gayhitler420English
        1·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • lseif@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        on linux at least, its one command to install, one command to run. worth the ‘effort’

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      I usually use the trick to download YouTube videos using vlc media player, that gives mp4s, which one can get an mp3 from if for some reason I want an mp3 and not mp4 using audacity or something

    • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      From my time at Tumblr and DeviantArt I am really familiar with stuff like ffmpeg, but I don’t think it is the type you are referring too.

    • ch00f@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I recently needed a QR code generated, and for the life of me, I couldn’t find a website that wouldn’t either require me to sign up, or generate the QR code to their link shortener service.

      Finally resorted to logging into my headless Linux server and installing some QR code package.

    • Sabata11792@kbin.social
      81·
      11 months ago

      The seedy anime sites are noticeably nicer than any legit site I’ve tried. Crunchyroll is a worse website than most pirate sites(assuming noting has improved since years ago). You just need an adblocker for the nuke my PC button next to the video.

  • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
    561·
    11 months ago

    Someone’s using yt-dlp and ffmpeg wrong if they’re getting ads.

  • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    492·
    11 months ago

    Also the pirate movie sites that you can’t use without adblocker because without it wherever you click it opens a new window.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      What I hate about those is when they switch sites but leave the ad ridden husk that gets worse and I need to figure out what southeast Asian domain I need to switch my tabs to.

  • CompN12@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    It reminds me of trying to find ROMs online as a kid, the link is almost always the smallest link, and almost never the five green DOWNLOAD buttons.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    11 months ago

    Adblockers remove all those messages and ads. You’d be surprised at exactly how boring those pages look without 12 different download buttons, an ad for McAfee, and two banners about VPNs.

  • Emerald@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

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    One thing I really love about seedy anime websites and YouTube mp3 converters is like. They actually do what they say they’re doing. But they WILL try to trick you into downloading a virus. Like its almost just a greeting at this point. I try to extract a song from a YouTube video and it says free VPN installer tonight perhaps? Free VPN installer tonight queen? And I say YouTube-mp3 converter you sly dog, you know what I’m here for. Show me the goods. And YouTube-mp3 converter says ahhh you got me, no getting one over on you. Thought it was worth a try tho. Here you go king x

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    I’ve had a good experience with youpak, you just take the url from whatever YouTube video you’re on and change “tube” of YouTube.com/shegaiabfvtbrbw to “pak” so it’s youpak.com/whateverwhateverwhatever and the dropdown right at the top has the download or convert to MP3 buttons right there.

    I do use Firefox with an adblocker so idk if it’s a cancerous site otherwise.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    81·
    11 months ago

    I have a little app that lets me send it a Spotify playlist and then it goes and finds the matching song on YouTube, converts it, and downloads it all in a big batch. Took forever to fuckin’ find and it was of course on a site like that. Been a while since I used it; probably doesn’t even work anymore. I tried like 5 others before finding that one, and they were all broken.

    The dumb thing is I only wanted it because even though I use the local file thing and still pay for Spotify, it wouldn’t actually play anything whenever I didn’t have Internet access, making it’s own built in system of “downloading” and playing files locally useless.