Example 1:
Right during the pandemic, TFI (French TV) put up all past seasons of its show ‘Star Academy’. It was something I have been trying to get hold of but did not have any luck. As soon as it popped I thought I got it all. (2 years ago). Today I found out I was missing the first season (8 in total) and went to try to grab it. ALL seasons have now been removed. I am quite pissed at it!

Example 2:
A user upscaled Britney Spear music videos using AI. The results were mind blowing. I grabbed all the videos I could (official ones are 480p/720 p max limited). Less than 1 week later, the content was gone…forever.

Example 3: (Non YT)
Not YT. Koh Lanta (French equivalent of Survivor) is aired on french TV (TFI again). As soon as the season is over, they take it down. You are unable to rewatch/watch it if you missed the air/stream time. ALL past seasons are also not available and that spans to about 20+ years of contents and 30+seasons. Same applies to US Survivor but to a lesser extent. And you need to keep paying to ‘stream’ it.

Conclusion:
Always archive media you want to rewatch/collect. Streaming is not your friend. It is just another way of controlling content distribution, tying you up to the ‘subscription’ slavery model instead of owning your contents and worse, down the line downright CENSORING or MODIFYING contents to fit whatever garbage narrative is currently en vogue.

Stay focused brothers!

  • DevanteWeary@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    My thing is I just want something to watch my personal playlists/ favorites and save them so I never have that “this video was removed” problem again.

    However, I don’t know what can do it. I tried TubeArchivist and another one using their Docker containers in my Unraid server but it doesn’t really do what I’m trying.

  • inssein@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Sooner or later all these streaming first movies and shows that had zero physical release will start to go missing or in limbo when these companies go under and people will wonder where they can find them.

    I know a lot of the shows I enjoy watching on netflix will be gone someday unless I start backing them up now.

  • UserInside@alien.topB
    1·
    10 months ago

    Tu sauvegarde la Star Académie !!! Mais honte à toi ! C’est déjà assez dur comme ça, même sans TV d’essayer d’y échapper, aux pubs en ville, et leurs reprises de merdes à la radio… Et toi tu sauvegarde ça sur ton setup de geek ! Mais vas marcher sur des Lego !!! C’est dingue ça !!!

    Bon OK Koh Lanta, je peux comprendre, entre les aventuriers toujours plus dingues à chaque saison et les changements de règles toujours inattendus de Denis, ça reste ce qu’il y a de mieux sur TF1.

    Mais bordel, la Star Ac…

    J’ai 31 ans, déjà quand l’autre grognasse Bretonne de Nolwenn Leroy a gagné j’en avais déjà marre (saison 3 je crois ?), j’avais 12 ans à l’époque.

    S’il te plaît OP, laisse donc cette merde mourir dans les oubliettes de TF1. Puisse qu’aucun archéologue dans le futur, tomber sur cette daube et prétendre que “c’était la musique populaire en ce temps là”.

    Si tu veux sauvegarder des émissions ou D ela musique, choisis au moins du contenu audible et de bon goût, s’il te plaît !

      • UserInside@alien.topB
        1·
        10 months ago

        La femme chocolat avec sa voix de canard. Je l’ai subis tout un été en colo…

        Dès que je l’entends, j’ai des visions de Vietnam qui me reviennent en tête…

        Plus jamais ça, PLUS JAMAIS CAAA !!!

        Il y a des gens ici qui ont pris mon post au 1er degré alors je pose ça là => /S

    • I_Cant_Ink_Straight@alien.topB
      1·
      10 months ago

      Ce qui est « de la merde » pour toi, n’est pas forcément le cas pour tout le monde. Je suis sûr que tu sauves « de la merde » aussi. Ton opinion sur ce qui est audible ou pas on en a absolument rien à branler.

  • Redoubt9000@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ve done similarly, RedLetterMedia, some of my fav streamers and long plays, Gaki no Tsukai - and recently DnD streams. If I’m on my PC at least, I play the videos straight from youtube as a means of support to the channels, but any other time? I’ve got my copies on a loop.

    Had been using Tartube and I never delved deep into youtube-dl cmd prompts. Recently it seems to have issue downloading the highest available quality, but I’m beginning to not care as much most of the time, I just rip it to a lo bit rate mp3 to listen to when I’m driving, cooking, w/e. Most of the time, the content I have is very conducive to just audio only.

  • uraffuroos@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Ahhh the good ole’ days of a studio producing all the season’s on DVD content and manufacturing it en mass. What a time!

  • EddyBlackmint@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    This is why I save all music/audiobooks/etc. In flac from deezer. Its so fucked up if theres something coming to mind which you want so Bad after remembering it just to Disco ver its gone.

  • ziggo0@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    On my rack I have a little emblem that says ‘Archive Everything’ - it’s a cute animal looking over a set of folders. I archive what I can.

  • EpicLPer@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ve set up “Tube Archivist” and don’t regret it whatsoever. Automatically scans my playlists or channels I add at the times I set the cron to. It’s still somewhat in early development and the cookie-parsing doesn’t work half the time for me sadly, tho I seem to be one of just a few cases who have this issue.

    It’s a game-changer when it comes to archiving :) It even saves subtitles, comments and SponsorBlock timestamps.

  • LaGrande-Gwaz@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Greetings ye, I still am lamenting the long-ago deletion of that “Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy” video, in which “Nigh of Fire” is synchronized onto the film’s opening vehicle-chase; such was the means that I was formally introduced into Euro’beat. -__-

    ~Waz

  • subven1@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    You can import Youtube playlists into Jdownloader and download for example your “Liked Videos”. You can also use “Google Takeout” to export all you files, playlists and history to CSV.

    • Mountainking7@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      You can import Youtube playlists into Jdownloader and download for example your “Liked Videos”. You can also use “Google Takeout” to export all you files, playlists and history to CSV.

      Yes, I use playlist in JDL. I just archived 5 french sitcoms totalling about 90-100GB of space from YT. I’m sure they will take it out at some point as it is still being played by AB channels…

  • PanicBlitz@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    A really prolific chill music channel called Quantum Foam Sounds recently bit the dust, taking tons of obscure albums with unique art made by the channel with it. Fortunately the admin of the channel posted about a week earlier about what might be coming down the line, and I grabbed all the ones that were important to me (like, seriously, some of them have become things I HAVE to listen to at least once a week.)

    • zvejas@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Removing content and not archiving it for others to use in the future is a war crime

    • weeklygamingrecap@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Glad you were able to back up your favorites, sounds like it was a cool channel. Sad to hear about stuff like this after it was gone.

  • plunki@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    My yt-dlp is running most nights, but I’ve gotta stop… I’m never going to get around to watching everything.

    Could you share the Britney Spears??? :)

    • Redoubt9000@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      yt-dlp

      Have you any copy pasta to drop? Most GUI attached to yt-dlp seem to run into hiccups from time to time. My most recent case is it downloading 720p rather than the highest available video.

      I think I managed in the past to figure out how to run prompts at some point, but it was a confusing affair for me personally. I like how most GUI allow me to copy a playlist and kinda just forget and let it download.