There are some albums that I genuinely can't find anywhere else, they barely seem to exist. Is there a good way to turn a full album on youtube to a bunch of seperate files for each song, a shortcut to getting the metadata right for each song, etc? Or is downloading the whole thing and manually chopping it up the only way?

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[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If chapters are available for the video, yt-dlp has a command line argument that will split the video into different files, one for each chapter. Quoting a reddit comment:

you need ffmpeg.
how to convert to mp3: wiki
split chapters: --split-chapters
example naming files after chapters: -o "chapter:%(section_number)s %(section_title)s.%(ext)s"
available chapter variables:
section_title (string): Title of the chapter
section_number (numeric): Number of the chapter within the file
section_start (numeric): Start time of the chapter in seconds
section_end (numeric): End time of the chapter in seconds
as i recall, i don't use this myself, it will also keep the original file, which naming depends on the regular -o (use in addition to the -o line with chapter:)

--split-chapters will also work with the timestamps mentioned in the description

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you say can't find anywhere, does that include slsk?

[–] the_robot_from_planet_danger@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had no idea slsk had so much stuff on it, thanks for prompting me to check. A lot of the stuff I was looking for is there.

Just make sure to share my library in turn, correct?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 points 1 week ago

Just make sure to share my library in turn, correct?

Yep, it's good to be a good citizen.

[–] kero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Got a guide on how to get started?

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

A little bit of searching found me mp3splt-gtk, which boasts the ability to automatically split an mp3 file into tracks, and even name them according to internet or local databases. I haven't used it but it sounds like exactly what you need.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

since someone already mentioned slsk.. i found this chinese site recently and it seems to have a bunch of stuff that's no longer available elsewhere. www.22a5.com

this 'kuwo' thing seems to be some proper chinese music streaming platform but they somehow host flac/mp3 without drm, and this 22a5 site somehow pulls metadata from it and provides direct link. there are a few more sites that work/look exact same as 22a5 like 33ve.com and eev3.com

[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yt-dlp is the usual answer. There’s a script for when people have song chapters someone linked as well as the surprisingly decent mp3split-gtk, also already referenced.

Speaking as a soulseek user, be careful. You are now manually deciding what users you will accept data from with only the validation and security your computer or you yourself provide. It is incredibly easy to look up desirable rare recordings and create believable dummy files with a payload.

[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are malicious audio files a thing? Is it pervasive on soulseek? Would it be OS agnostic? I was under the impression, that the only way to get malware is disregarding security popups when installing shady stuff from cnet.

I don't know how to code, but have been my own admin for quite some time. Having malware in containers besides .exe files gives me the heebie-jeebies.

[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Users of the automated arr torrent and usenet stack have been complaining about malicious fake releases on public trackers which hit before the content street date and contain esoteric archive files that can run a program upon unpacking for maybe the last month or so.

The files are automatically downloaded by the users software because they match the users profile for that movie or series.

The users are mad that the devs told them to stop using trackers that distribute malware rather than the devs agreeing to implement filtering.

The only reason old archive formats are being deployed in that attack is because most antimalware doesn’t pay attention to them. Almost every modern archive format can at least open a link when processed but even the software that the users os calls to perform the operation has some kind of interlink built in to prevent that from happening without user awareness.

So there are currently malware crews actively and successfully targeting piracy networks and software.

Many years ago, one vector for mp3s other than extension-fu was embedding clickable links in the id3 data so that when displayed in Winamps playlist a user would accidentally or inquisitively make contact with some server. I first encountered this on soulseek.

There are also circumstances where extension-fu isn’t required. You can test this out on your own system by making a copy of some standalone program and renaming it with a wrong extension (say, .mp3 for instance!) then trying to open it.