• waigl@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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        11 months ago

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

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        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.

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          11 months ago

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

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        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

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        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.

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        11 months ago

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

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      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.

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      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

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      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.