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Administrator Flotsam said:
And sorry if I'm missing something but is there anything wrong with youtube video to mp3 sites that allow you to get an mp3 from a video link you paste into their site? All of them are riddled with intrusive ads but all you do is enter a link and download a file; aren't they better for getting music than torrents or ytdlp? Is there anything about them that I'm missing?
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There is a python program called spot-dl that yanks all of the metadata for any song from Spotify and downloads it off of Youtube using yt-dlp. You can dump entire Spotify playlists into it and get decent results.
 
whogoesthere said:
But if you are ok with that low quality then I guess its fine. 320 would seem much smarter.

(why do they have ads anyway, you should be using ublock origin or something to avoid that shit)
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seri0us said:
As the other gentlemen mentioned YT audio is limited to 128kbs and you should be using uBlock Origin.
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Ok I didn't even know about the bitrate issue, I just downloaded a load of stuff and didn't check any of it.

I try to have adblock off by default but this was one of the sites that required it. Sad to know the ads weren't the only compromise on there.
 
Administrator Flotsam said:
Ok I didn't even know about the bitrate issue, I just downloaded a load of stuff and didn't check any of it.

I try to have adblock off by default but this was one of the sites that required it. Sad to know the ads weren't the only compromise on there.
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Not sure of your level of computer know how, but you could give jdownloader2 a blast. I have used it to grab youtube videos and audio rips from youtube for songs I just could not find anywhere else (obscure black metal trash). That way no dodgy sites to worry about, as you just grab the url for the video in question, then jdownloader2 grabs it, and you can choose the video or audio (or both if you wish).

Just an idea to mull over if you are concerned about the dodgy sites.
 
SpellforceFan said:
If that's indeed the case, I hope they get fucked by lawsuits
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They should get fucked just for being crybaby passive agressive cunts

I mean was this REALLY necessary by them?
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I'm glad people are calling this out for what it is. idk wtf is gog-game's problem
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Ah well, another bookmark to delete I guess. At least Torrminatorr doesn't show any signs of pulling shit like this. Last I checked, they had a little announcement at the top begging for donations to keep hosting the site and now it's gone, so I guess they met their goal and life goes on as always.

Also, I couldn't find the Polish version of Shadow of Chernobyl on GOG-Games, but it was on Torrminatorr. Not only that, it's hosted on Yandex Disk, and not 1fichier where you can download one file per day and if you don't have a way to get a fresh IP you have to wait. So yeah, fuck GOG-Games, long live Torrminatorr.

Administrator Flotsam said:
I'm retarded about audio so I'll check it out, thanks.
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Just remember to go for the ad-free downloads. The download page linked on the main page has installers bundled with adware.
 
Administrator Flotsam said:
Ok I didn't even know about the bitrate issue, I just downloaded a load of stuff and didn't check any of it.

I try to have adblock off by default but this was one of the sites that required it. Sad to know the ads weren't the only compromise on there.
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Just download Nicotine+ (Soulseek) it is by far the easiest way to download music on the Internet and has guaranteed any obscure shit in FLAC or 320 that you’re looking for.
 
SpellforceFan said:
they are prohibited by law from adding functionality to download DRM protected content.
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And that's not the scope of the software. The scope of the software is to make it easier and faster to download shit from the web, not to specifically download shit protected by Widevine. If you assumed that JD2 is a piracy program you're a fucking retard. Plus, it's pretty clear that JD devs would absolutely love to add such functionality to their software, but because they are from a country with draconian laws they cannot do so, and to move to a freer country just to appease a few users that want to download shit from a few websites with DRM is just stupid.

JDownloader2 is great for many other things, including downloading pirated content. For example, you know those shitty download sites with multiple fake download buttons, waiting times and other bullshit like that? JDownloader2 is there so that you paste in a link, it figures out the right download link for you, and if there is a captcha, it'll automatically click it for you so it's as painless as possible.

One complaint I have is that in the recent years all those sites are getting protected by Matthew Princess and JD2 still hasn't figured out how to bypass Cuckflare's cockblock with shared browser cookies or something like that, so a lot of sites no longer really work in JD2.

However, another fantastic use for JD2 is the ability to add accounts and to do inline downloading. You can add a Google account and do 20 simultaneous inline downloads of a file from Google Drive that needs an account to download.

Or, and this is my favorite function, you know how Internet Archive is a safe haven for software piracy because of their DMCA exemption? And how their download speeds are painfully slow? And how their torrents are useless as they never contain all the files and no one ever uses them? And how some collections require you to have an account and direct download anyway?

With JDownloader2 it's actually feasible to grab shit from there by direct download, because you can add your IA account to JD2 to access those login only collections, and then you can start an inline download, so if normally you have that horrendous download speed of 700Kbps, now you have that, but multiplied by 20 times, so you can hit 14Mbps download speeds. Now it takes a few minutes to download a multi-gigabyte ISO instead of a few hours, because you're simultaneously downloading it 20 times. You could try and bop this up even further with advanced options, but JD2 limits it to 20 by default to not overly stress various servers when people use the software out of the box.

There are also other useful functions of JD2, like scanning links so you can grab all the images from a website with a gallery to easily batch download those, or the aforementioned YouTube downloader that's a good way to download and archive YouTube videos if you're a nigger, fear the command line and therefore cannot use yt-dlp like a white man, or you're just lazy. But JDownloader2 is not all-encompassing, and yeah, for different sites you'll want different tools, maybe even purpose written.

That is not to say that JDownloader2 is shit and gay because kikes and g*rmans and hurr durr they do not appease to my autistic standards. It's irreplaceable for many things, but there are also many things that other software does better or simply do something that cannot be done in JD2. I still use it for inline downloading large files because I don't know other downloaders that let me do so and use site credentials to bypass login restrictions.
 
I'm wondering if someone can help me find the best place to get some old games?

I'm looking for Soldier of fortune, kingdom under fire, Bad company, Fade to Black, mainly a lot of old-school obscure games.

I can't find any of them on the fitgirl site.

Halp, pls? Thank you kindly.
 
how do you even access zlibrary these days? i wanna get my hands on some more artbooks and sci fi novels im too poor to pay for
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
I'm wondering if someone can help me find the best place to get some old games?

I'm looking for Soldier of fortune, kingdom under fire, Bad company, Fade to Black, mainly a lot of old-school obscure games.

I can't find any of them on the fitgirl site.

Halp, pls? Thank you kindly.
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Try looking through these: https://r-roms.github.io/megathread/pc/
The Redump collections on IA are great, but they're strictly CD/DVD rips. You can just browse the software section and you might find something anyway.
Deadwaste said:
how do you even access zlibrary these days? i wanna get my hands on some more artbooks and sci fi novels im too poor to pay for
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It's a bit tricky because the current URL doesn't refer to that name: https://singlelogin.re
Which also means that anything that has "Z-Library" in the URL is most probably a scam.
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
I'm wondering if someone can help me find the best place to get some old games?

I'm looking for Soldier of fortune, kingdom under fire, Bad company, Fade to Black, mainly a lot of old-school obscure games.

I can't find any of them on the fitgirl site.

Halp, pls? Thank you kindly.
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here: https://www.myabandonware.com

tthere are also plenty of sites similar to myabandonware
 
Update on gog-games

Apparently they are telling everyone to check their mastodon for updates on whether or not the site will be back open... the same Mastodon that before this month hasn't had a post since October last year.


But again, they are being passive agresssive about it, as they "may or may not" even give an update at all
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>We don't know. Could be never
Someone needs to tell these fuckers to get off their periods.
 
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