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[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 112 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

yt-dlp was created in October 2020, Soulseek in April 2001, torrents in Juli 2001. Your "ol' reliable" was created 5 years ago, 19 years younger than its competition. Youtube itself was founded in 2005.

I'm not sure you know what "ol' reliable" means ;)

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 84 points 3 months ago (2 children)

yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, which was released in 2006.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 months ago (5 children)

And still younger than the other 2, invalidating the initial point of the meme all the same.

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[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago

She is over 18 but is it appropriate

I counted the original youtube-dl as the same for the sake of the meme; but you aren't wrong.

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Why would I want shitty mp3s when I can get crispy flacs just as easily? Fkn lol

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's great for you but I fucked up my hearing by listening to Linking Park on maximum volume in the cheapest Chinese earbuds a third world teenager's allowance could buy circa 2006.

.... And getting stuff from YouTube takes 3% less effort.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe enjoy crispy 128 .opus? Yeah flacs are on another level... But 100MB/file just doesn't justify the negligeable quality increase you won't even notice anymore in your late 40s !

However, saving TB of disk space does !

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What are you downloading that's 100MB?
Maybe a WAV.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Naah ! Most flac I have are in the 50/80 range but when you have a huge library it doesn't make sense to archive in flac IMO.

It makes sense if you are music producer, but my whole library would need a huge SSD cluster :/

[–] Kena@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I have a massive music library and it doesn’t even make a dent. Literally any modern video game will take up more space than HUNDREDS of lossless records.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is a solution to this, get a real flac and convert it to opus 🙂

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeaaah ! That's even better ! However, I'm listening to some obscure Electronic music which often doesn't come in flac format :(

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Oof, sorry that's the case. I wish more artists would encode to a lossless format.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago

Well technically from youtube at least they're either oggs or m4as. However, yeah, flacs are better if you can get real ones.

[–] ngdev@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

show me anywhere other than youtube that has the demon cleaner cover by tool

point is that it is good for the random one-offs but agreed on how much easier it is to get flac over mp3, seems like most stuff i cant even find mp3

[–] tkw8@lemm.ee 56 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Please don’t turn this community into a meme dumping ground. You can go to r/piracy for that.

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No one should go to that website ever. But it's true, we should have a dedicated piracy memes community, or do we already have one? But until lemmy is this small it wouldn't help if the communities were even more fine grained.

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago

It's worse here too because you can actually filter out the memes from r/piracy, Lemmy has no such feature since it still lacks a flair/tag system

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Please, I hate discussion coms turning into meme chambers

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago

There should probably be a piracymemes community to prevent this from the get go

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Memes always take over communities because of how much upvotes they receive. Also, they spark discusssions which sometimes are quite interesting (altough off topic).

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Ah, and the redditors can't cope with knowing their community has become just another meme community, and yet they feel like it is so important and the last good community for Reddit 😂

It is actually funny the delusionalism you get when you give a quick look there.

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 24 points 3 months ago

I used to use YouTube rips, but I hated that the music video version isn't the same as the album version and I kept getting songs that were a shitty bitrate because they're not all available in at least 320 kbps.

I can hear all sorts of noise in a lot of my old files and it made my mix CDs noticeably sound like shit. I'm happy that you guys are happy using it, but for me it's more of a last resort.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Using this as an opportunity to promote the new Soulseek community: !soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Oooh, neat! Thanks for spreading the word :)

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just recently started using it again… but that’s mainly because I found “pinchflat” which gives a great front end for yt-dlp and a bunch of the options. Mainly thought it was a great project that I could use to start archiving channels that I want down the line like all of Demolition Ranch, but I came to realize it’s just a great front end for yt-dlp lol

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I only use yt-dlp for the odd video I want in my Jellyfin server.
What I was surprised to learn: It ~~Yit~~ can download from a multitude of other pages as well

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“Yit”? From a search of GitHub I’m not seeing a YouTube downloader that rivals yt-dlp.. got a link?

[–] buliarous@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure yit is just an autocorrect of yt-dlp

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 1 points 3 months ago

😂 kinda figured.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Typo. I meant "it"

[–] combatfrog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I use both lidarr and yt-dlp. Lidarr for when I want full albums in high bitrate, and yt for smaller songs where I don’t want the whole album.

Both as containers on my server, and they download to a folder navidrome scans. Pretty slick.

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[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

So what is the best for audiophile piracy? I'm asking for a friend who is a total audiophile. Spotify rips? Youtube rips?

[–] Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Soulseek. Its the way to go honestly

[–] Kena@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Spotify and YouTube have such low quality audio that they should be immediately disregarded. Soulseek has a lot of really high quality audio but also regular mp3s otherwise QBDLX is phenomenal since qobuz has high quality.

[–] vardogor@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

flacs from qobuz/deezer. lucida.to

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lucida.to is great.

Or for faster downloads, just register for a Qobuz trial with a throwaway account, download all you want with stream rip or similar tool. Rinse and repeat.

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[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

People are arguing about the audio quality, meanwhile the only reason i don't do this is because i find it more work to tag and name the files properly. When you download from Soulseek/torrenting it usually comes already tagged

I do still have youtube downloads in my library, especially when it's just one or two songs.

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