I download youtube videos in .mp3 format very often, both for music and to listen to as podcasts. I don’t know if it’s the best method but this is how i do it:

• Use the MultiSelect extension to select multiple videos and put them in a playlist, which i name Download. This playlist has to be public.

• Use Open Video Downloader to download this playlist, making sure that it writes the metadata in tags. If necessary, it can also download age-restricted videos by importing cookies from your browser, i’ve done it a couple of times but it’s not convenient.

• I pretty much leave it at that, but you could use a media tagger to add further information to the files.

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.

If, like me, you just wanted to know what the Bob Dylan defence, is:

“Meta’s response in this case seems to be that a powerful technology corporation should not be held to the same standard as everyone else for illegal conduct.”

The authors mocked Meta for raising what they call “the Bob Dylan defense” of its torrenting, citing song lyrics from “Sweetheart Like You” that say, “Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king.”

Look, the only reason we even know about Meta torrenting books is because they’re getting sued. Evidently they’re not getting away with it, unless they win this case

Yeah, video storage is what prevents corporations from creating YouTube competitors, and it also prevents decentralized users from competing

I don’t think ideas are the problem, it’s that new forms of distribution are causing the industry to panic. Producers are making safer bets (sequels, remakes, franchises) so original ideas, which tons of people have, aren’t getting funded.

Also worth noting that producers these days are less Hollywood and more Wall Street, they don’t really understand movies so they make calls based on numbers and precedent that let them estimate profitability.

Yeah i’ll run out of space one day, but the more popular movies will be the first to go because i know i can get them again.

Still plenty of chance for someone to seize my lonely booty

No, it’s movies, and it’s largely smaller lower-quality RARBG releases. They used to have a range of qualities available and the middle was always more popular, their highest and lowest quality releases used to be harder to seed, and that was years ago before they shut down

Beats me. I get peers from DHT, from trackers, and a few from PEX, but once they’re in a lot of them time out. A lot of them return “Connection reset” too.

Happens a lot less when i set up port forwarding properly, but it still happens. Could be a lot of things, and i don’t have the technical knowledge to even know about most

No i haven’t tried that yet, my assumption is that this only includes the settings and not the actual transfers. If it did include the transfers then Tixati users would just do that, instead i was always told to transplant core2.dat

Wait, now that i read that, it DOES include transfers! I did not know that, that’s a solid lead thank you

EDIT: It works, all the transfers are backed up; this is a lot better, especially because i preserves dates (Created, Completed, Bits uploaded, Ratio, etc).

BUT, the file locations are also backed up. This is a problem because i’m switching from Windows to Linux, so i can’t recreate the file structure because it starts with D:/ instead of starting with /media

Once i update the file location, it triggers a force check, which is the point where some of them fail and display 99% even though they were 100% before. That problem is still unsolved, and i now realize it probably can’t be solved.

Overall though this is great, you made me notice something i didn’t and it’s way better than what i was doing, thanks!

EDIT EDIT: yeah i’ve come to the conclusion that those who were 100% and are now 99% are just corrupted.

Aside from that, yeah, the file paths are different on Linux and Windows so you’ll have to rebind the locations. At this point you’ll get “error file missing” for no reason, you can force check to get rid of that.

Yes i do set up port forwarding every time, but no i don’t know if those even have peers. They should because i don’t think RARBG is that dead, but maybe they just don’t.

Then again most peers i do get come back as “Timed out connecting” and “Connection reset”, so it does make me wonder if i’m just doing it wrong. It seems to happen whether or not the VPN is on.

EDIT: i’m using Proton and this is how i set up port forwarding, i do notice a difference

Tried qBittorrent and Transmission, they don’t do better, in fact they see the same number of peers as Tixati does. And i don’t know what would happen if i had two clients try to download the same file, probably nothing good.

Are you trying to do this too?

Oh i see it now, i didn’t mean it like that lol

Yeah as far as i can tell the best way to do this is to export all magnets out of the old system, import them in the new system, make sure the file path / location is correct, and force check. It’s what i did, but a lot of transfers are apparently only 99% complete even though they were 100% before. Of these, many have 0 peers so i don’t know if there’s any hope of them completing.

It’s a shitshow. Honestly i fucking hate torrenting right now, nothing ever works

Thanks, that’s really sick! These are torrents though, i was thinking of trackers

Man i wish. Here in France they actually send letters and you get a 1500€ fine if you ignore them three times.

Or at least they did back in the day, do they still? Well i’ve already gotten 2/3 letters so i’m not gonna try to find out

Oh my god, i think someone may have recommended this to me years ago and i just forgot… Thanks!

Yeah they’ll lawyer up, but only for themselves. They have no reason to to do anything that benefits the rest of us.

Maybe the torrenting community could see some legal benefits, but only if incentives align. Which they very well may not because Meta is not one of us and their interests don’t really align with anyone else’s.

“invest” implies that you could make your money back.

This is what i expect to see in a piracy community on Lemmy

I’ve been torrenting with VPNs for years and never understood how they work together. I just really wish i didn’t have to do this, i already struggle enough without the added complexity