Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

[Anti Snigger]

I think there is a good chance things will be back to how they were before in a short amount of time but this really is a moment that shows how fragile Youtube's music library is. All it takes is a couple big companies not playing ball and thousands of albums worth of songs become inaccessible in an instance.

Yeah, I’m definitely going to brainstorm a better solution long term. I can’t overstate it enough, I’m not really using YT for the music itself as much as the algorithm to find new music, and create the mixes.

 

[Old English Roast Beef]

Yeah, I’m definitely going to brainstorm a better solution long term. I can’t overstate it enough, I’m not really using YT for the music itself as much as the algorithm to find new music, and create the mixes.

If you like the recommendation algorithm, just keep using Youtube as you do now but set yt-dlp to regularly download your playlist and extract audio. Nothing can get lost that way, though naturally you won't get recommended something that's not on there.

 

[Anti Snigger]

If you like the recommendation algorithm, just keep using Youtube as you do now but set yt-dlp to regularly download your playlist and extract audio. Nothing can get lost that way, though naturally you won't get recommended something that's not on there.

I mean, regardless of the solution, I’ve been reminded that I’m fucking niggercattle munching in the fields

 

[Gog & Magog]

People who do nothing about adverts should be mocked, for they are niggercattle and exist to be punished.

But without them businesses wouldn't buy adspace and that would negatively impact the amount of creative works produced, thus reducing the sheer numbers of newer works available to be pirated. If I am to pirate then there must be honest merchant ships waiting to be plundered.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

But without them businesses wouldn't buy adspace and that would negatively impact the amount of creative works produced, thus reducing the sheer numbers of newer works available to be pirated.

The total amount, perhaps, but if anything I believe the average quality would go up. Youtube was better before it became a viable "career" for "content creators".

 

[The Man With No Name]

Saw the CH thread and checked my own playlists, large swathes have been obliterated
I can pirate and stuff, but YT Music has a great recommendation algorithm
This is a kick in the dick I didn’t ask for

Agreed - Spotify feels like malware and their algorithm seems to only recommend really surface level shit. I've discovered a lot of new artists and songs via YT Music, and 100% more usable to me.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Yeah, I’m definitely going to brainstorm a better solution long term. I can’t overstate it enough, I’m not really using YT for the music itself as much as the algorithm to find new music, and create the mixes.

Do playlists getting decimated hide the titles of the videos? I remember that being a thing that screwed me over before. Bottom line, if you're not downloading, keep a local text document or bookmarks to everything, so you retain the information. So if they scrub 500 obscure songs at least you'll know what they were. With a little coding you can link to YouTube and search other services with the same data.

As for the recommendations, I've also used YouTube to do that. I don't know if any other platform comes close to being as useful. I would give Jango a shot to look for related artists.

 

[ghastlyretard]

but YT Music has a great recommendation algorithm

Compared to what Play Music had, the algorithm on YT Music is dog shit. I haven't had more than maybe 2 songs suggested that I liked since being forced onto YT Music, but most of my library is music suggested by Play Music before the switch.

 

[Agent of Misinformation]

I think there is a good chance things will be back to how they were before in a short amount of time but this really is a moment that shows how fragile Youtube's music library is. All it takes is a couple big companies not playing ball and thousands of albums worth of songs become inaccessible in an instant.

Born too late for new world colonization, born too early for planetary colonization, but born at the right time to witness private equity colonization. They will fuck with Youtube. It's not a matter of if it will happen; it's a matter of when.

 

[ENDTOPII]

If this doesn't scream Late Stage Capitalism, I don't know what is at this point. Reminds me of this scene from Idiocracy where AD's are placed surrounding the show.

> reddit comment

Google/Youtube was funded by the USA goverments first of all, so it wasn't "Capitalism" that got them where they are now, or what ever Marxist buzzword you want to use. Even if it was a "non capitalistic" system (in your words), the "ads" in question would be propaganda for something else. It's simply about doing mental terrorism to make people follow a certain way of living. Doesn't matter what system it is. Psyops through technology and media will always be a thing. Now go back ro reddit.


The economy is also fake as fuck.

 

[Catboy Ranch Dressing]

SESAC took down the McDonald's brony's cover of Skyfall.

I was able to download it.

 

[Danann]

Youtube is missing songs due to an expired SESAC licensing deal in the USA. A lot of songs from popular musicians are effected.

Hmm, "Society of European Stage Authors and Composers".
Of course it has European in its name. Anything European is just poison, even if its not European in origin.

 

[peachlover669]

Local file chads stay winning, might i reccomend nicotine+ to all the streamingfags here? you could also use yt-dlp i suppose but then your downloading nasty mp3 tier files of music.

 

[Pee Cola]

Local file chads stay winning, might i reccomend to nicotine+ to all the streamingfags here?

Seconded. Soulseek is the tits, and Nicotine+ makes it even better.

 

[McAfee]

Youtube is missing songs due to an expired SESAC licensing deal in the USA. A lot of songs from popular musicians are effected.

Saw the CH thread and checked my own playlists, large swathes have been obliterated
I can pirate and stuff, but YT Music has a great recommendation algorithm
This is a kick in the dick I didn’t ask for

Im ready to start pirating at this point. Where can I start?

 

[Captain Wetbeard]

Im ready to start pirating at this point. Where can I start?

I'd recommend checking you the revanced YouTube Music app if you like the YouTube music stuff but dont want to pay for premium.
For pirating music that cant be found on YouTube I'd probably recommend searching Yandex for specialized music sites since they don't really suppress piracy in their results.

 

[McAfee]

I'd recommend checking you the revanced YouTube Music app if you like the YouTube music stuff but dont want to pay for premium.
For pirating music that cant be found on YouTube I'd probably recommend searching Yandex for specialized music sites since they don't really suppress piracy in their results.

Do you know where I can pirate old TV news shows? Thats one of the main things I watch.

 

[Captain Wetbeard]

Do you know where I can pirate old TV news shows? Thats one of the main things I watch.

Old news shows is a very interesting genre, there's a bit on lookmovie, but there may be specialized sites with a larger selection. https://ww2.lookmovie.la/genre/news

 

[Anti Snigger]

The Soviet national anthem is seemingly one of the songs affected

 

[Colon capital V]

There's apparently been a bunch of bot comments going around leaving names of people in the comments, this is speculated to potentially be some sort of way to test what words are blacklisted on a creator's channel.
Thoughts?