One of my favourite applications. I stopped paying for spotify and just use this to get music these days. Everything gets uploaded to youtube anyways.
Downloading music from YouTube will get you MP3s, but they will have gone through the YT compression algorithms.
Use Deemix instead. Downloads MP3s straight from the Deezer servers with all metadata and album art.
Lucida.to would also be a pretty good choice, you can choose to download from either Deezer, Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music.
Discontinued in 2022 https://archive.org/details/deemix
You're right, but it does still work.
Ah. Well that's what matters.
Deemix? More like Mix Deez Nuts!
I'm sorry.
That's okay, it had to be done.
Does it automatically grab things like metadata (author, cover art, etc.) for you? And if it requires a flag, do you know it?
I don't bother personally for the most part but it seems like you can do it via --embed-metadata, --parse-metadata, and --embed-thumbnail.
Unless the artist only posts on YouTube, try soulseek. Most files have metadata already included, and if they don't, you can just download from another user.
It’s very automatic with just pointing it at the media’s URL, but also highly configurable if you want.
May I suggest SpotDL specifically for Spotify: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader
Absolutely. Bar none. Here's my config for downloading best quality YT videos (but works for other sites too) if anyone wants to base theirs on it: https://pastebin.com/ba9sFURT
Maybe a little bit shameless plug from me, but I want point to my Bash script for Linux to make the daily yt-dlp life easier: https://github.com/thingsiplay/yt-dlp-lemon yt-dlp-lemon -h will show only a few options and yt-dlp-lemon -H shows everything the script supports.
Oh hey i saw you in the comments of a brodie robertson video
Haha, hello there. World is small sometimes. :p
I wrote my own web app in Python, using pytube-fix and its lightning fast. Great library. I found a recent screenshot that's a bit behind in commits but you get the idea.
Edit: I published the source code, please note there is a LOT of work left to do, but it works. https://codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafter/pytube-gui
I didn't see anything like this image in the pytube-fix repo. Do you have a repo of the web interface somewhere? That looks really handy.
Will do! Edit: done: https://codeberg.org/ArtisanByteCrafter/pytube-gui
It's the main way I watch youtube now. After Piped and Newpipe stopped working for me across all devices, I only use 2 methods of watching Youtube now. Open in mpv (which is configured to use yt-dlp in the backend to make things faster), and download using yt-dlp. So it's key to me keeping on watching Youtube. Recently, I've started getting ads showing up even on Mobile Vivaldi, so no more YT on my phone.
So my new workflow is to use Piped to find a video, then copy the end of the link and type "yt-dlp " in a terminal, wait for the video(s) to download, and open in mpv.
OR
In some cases, use Qutebrowser, with a custom keybind to open a video in mpv.
yt-dlp is great, but if you need to archive playlists automatically, want a repository, or otherwise prefer a gui I would recommend TubeArchivist.
(Which itself uses yt-dlp)
I use parabolic on PC and Seal (on F-Driod) to download yt videos. Both are just YTDLP with a GUI because I'm not an arch user
I have been using Jdownloader2 for years.. I don’t know what the differences are, but might be an option for people who want something GUI based
If you need a gui or are trying to monitor playlists I would recommend TubeArchivist.
If you use it frequently, I suggest getting a GUI that have profiles or remember options so you don't have to mess with commands all the time. I wrote my own little command line wrspper which is Windows only since I don't have Linux to test on. Though it shouldn't take much effort to add support.
Makes it much more convenient when you don't have to specify things like archive (ignore duplicates), filename to be "artist - title" (where possible), download destination, etc. Just alt-tab, Ctrl-v, Enter. And the download is running. And mine also has parallel downloads and queue for when you got many slow downloads.
I tried a few times, but the video and audio are often out of sync. Anyone have this issue?
Strange. I downloaded thousands of videos with this tool (but just watched a handful of them) and never noticed an out of sync. Can you point me to a video I can download and test where you have this issue? Is it a new issue? Maybe Google is trolling us or you or your region.
No
Does it work for movies that "require you to sign in to verify your age"?
This is wonderful, I've been struggling with piped for some time now, it's always asking me to sign in to confirm that I'm not a bot. Also it's showing me videos in very low quality and often it stops loading halfway through the video. With this I get to see good quality videos once more, without unwanted pauses and without financing yt in any way. Great!
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