Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

[Combustion Engine]

featured music in the video

Disgustingly broken feature waiting to be abused from second-effect parasites, like most additions to those platforms, as they prioritize increasing immediate revenue over anything else. They don't give a fuck they're enabling scammers if their revenue goes up 0.05% with it. Spotify is the worst of them all in this sector. Anyway, I've seen a lot of cases where indie (not the genre) music is downloaded from YouTube, uploaded to third party services YouTube uses to ContentID music, and then claimed. Not necessarily big artists, I mean channels uploading assorted songs and those getting claimed, and also just random people uploading their own amateur stuff. Some of those aren't even copyrighted. It's a pretty popular issue (you can find articles, even reddit posts about it), but they just don't care. It's one of those things that are doubly irritating because they're practically rewriting ownership of some piece of art to make a few cents off it.

 

[Basement Dwelling Dork]

Really? I have the same set up and everything worked fine for me about an hour and a half ago. Did you accidentally zap the video element? Or you might need to restart your phone?

Made sure it wasn't that and double checked to make sure I didn't hit one of blocktubes block buttons. This went on for like 4 days before I decided to try again and it's back to normal. I still don't know what the fuck happened other than letting my phone die out last night and charging it back up again.

 

[Book Thief]

Tried 4, didn't work. Not about to do 1 or 2. I gave it a picture of Danny DeVito for 3. It worked.

If that's how easy it was to defeat it, then I wonder if something like This Person Does Not Exist could fool their AI age detection algorithm. After all, if they're gonna use AI to determine how old we are, we can use AI to fool it.



Why yes, YouTube, I am definitely an octogenarian matriarch trying to look at boobies and guns on the internet. Don't mind me.

 

[Pee Cola]

My hoarded mp3 files on my PC will come into handy more again soon, it looks like. Most of them are not the best quality, since they're gotten via the YouTubetomp3 days. I just mostly use YouTube for music nowadays, with the odd long podcasts and long videos from time to time. And many that I listen to is saved locally in my drives, I just can't be arsed to dig them up in their folders, and again YouTube has better quality.

yt-dlp -i -x --audio-format m4a (insert YouTube URL here),

Oh, and fuck Spotify and music streaming services, those are the epitome of "you vill own nothing" when it comes to listening to music that seems harder to curate and you have to pay for them.

See above, plus:

• always look out for used CDs at thrift stores, yard sales, estate sales etc and use EAC or freac to rip
• SoulSeek (the Nicotine+ app is better than the OG SoulSeek app)
• Rutracker
• alt.binaries.music.* newsgroups (though you'll need a paid newsgroup service)
• There are music group chats on Telegram, though these can be a little harder to find

As for curation, this is something that you may need to do manually. It could be as simple as throwing a bunch of tracks you like into its own directory and then playing them in shuffle mode, or it could be something more elaborate such as using a more advanced music player like foobar2000 to manage your tracks and playlists.

I've been using Soulseek (switched client to Nicotine+ recently, it's much better) for 20+ years and it's still good. I keep everything I need and use mp3tag, Tag&Rename and Album Art Downloader to edit tags and save cover art.

I like TagScanner, as it'll query databases like CDDB and Discogs to fill in missing metadata.

I have an HDD that I only connect once a month to do backups.

I have two 5TB HDDs, as I'd hate it if I lost it all because I didn't have a backup. Though I need to buy another couple of larger HDDs soon because I'm currently sitting on < 500GB free.

 

[Bob's Fuckass Head]

yt-dlp -i -x --audio-format m4a (insert YouTube URL here),


See above, plus:

• always look out for used CDs at thrift stores, secondhand stores, estate sales etc and use EAC or freac to rip
• SoulSeek (the Nicotine+ app is better than the OG SoulSeek app)
• Rutracker
• alt.binaries.music.* newsgroups (though you'll need a paid newsgroup service)
• There are music group chats on Telegram, though these can be a little harder to find

As for curation, this is something that you may need to do manually. It could be as simple as throwing a bunch of tracks you like into its own directory and then playing them in shuffle mode, or it could be something more elaborate such as using a more advanced music player like foobar2000 to manage your tracks and playlists.

I've used EAC in the past to digitize a huge chunk of my library from CD, and it worked beautifully. I'll have to give the yt-dlp command a try, because I've just been using it without modifiers and deleting the video component of the output.

 

[Pee Cola]

I've used EAC in the past to digitize a huge chunk of my library from CD, and it worked beautifully.

EAC is still the gold standard for audio CD ripping in Windows, even though it was last updated about 20 years ago. freac is good too, and is the best option I know of for MacOS and Linux users.

I'll have to give the yt-dlp command a try, because I've just been using it without modifiers and deleting the video component of the output.

Those modifiers block the video content and just download the audio, so you'll save a fair bit of time and data.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

alt.binaries.music.* newsgroups (though you'll need a paid newsgroup service)

I never used Usenet. Can someone explain why you need to pay to use it? Wasn't it mostly free in the 90s and early 2000s?

 

[Pee Cola]

I never used Usenet. Can someone explain why you need to pay to use it? Wasn't it mostly free in the 90s and early 2000s?

Free Usenet servers usually carry text-only newsgroups. Because binary newsgroups tend to take up a lot of space on servers, the only servers that carry binaries are paid ones. There are some other benefits to paid services too, such as retention (usually around 3 years or so), plus the fact your download speed will max out your connection and you won't be at the mercy of seeders like on BitTorrent.

Last time I checked, a Usenet account was around $10-$12 per month, but I haven't used Usenet in a while. Though I might go back to it if/when Spotify insist on photo ID in my country.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Free Usenet servers usually carry text-only newsgroups. Because binary newsgroups tend to take up a lot of space on servers, the only servers that carry binaries are paid ones. There are some other benefits to paid services too, such as retention (usually around 3 years or so), plus the fact your download speed will max out your connection and you won't be at the mercy of seeders like on BitTorrent.

Last time I checked, a Usenet account was around $10-$12 per month, but I haven't used Usenet in a while. Though I might go back to it if/when Spotify insist on photo ID in my country.

How does file sharing work? Are files stored on a server? Is there any p2p capability?

 

[Pee Cola]

How does file sharing work? Are files stored on a server? Is there any p2p capability?

You download the files from a Usenet news server using a suitable client, such as NZBget. It's been a while since I used Usenet, but from what I remember it was pretty straightforward to download, though I've never uploaded anything there.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

You download the files from a Usenet news server using a suitable client, such as NZBget. It's been a while since I used Usenet, but from what I remember it was pretty straightforward to download, though I've never uploaded anything there.

I see. That explains the payments.

 

[Staffy]

yt-dlp -i -x --audio-format m4a (insert YouTube URL here),

That's what I've been doing now, yes. Khinsider also is my place if I want to get to downloading game tracks directly. I just put the music files into folders if necessary, I just use shuffle all the time. And the music player I use is the unpozzed version of Winamp. All set.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

That's what I've been doing now, yes. Khinsider also is my place if I want to get to downloading game tracks directly. I just put the music files into folders if necessary, I just use shuffle all the time. And the music player I use is the unpozzed version of Winamp. All set.

 

[Relinquish]

These fucking faggot are making YouTube videos purposefully take long to load due to adblockers again. This time it's even more apparent since they quite literally give you a warning about it at the bottom left corner of your screen with a link that takes you to their "support page" notifiying you that the "adblockers" are the issue

I fucking hate this shit so much

 

[Scorpion From MK]

These fucking faggot are making YouTube videos purposefully take long to load due to adblockers again. This time it's even more apparent since they quite literally give you a warning about it at the bottom left corner of your screen with a link that takes you to their "support page" notifiying you that the "adblockers" are the issue

I fucking hate this shit so much

Usually a refresh fixes the issue, but if it doesn't try these frontends:

I'm pretty sure all of these have been mentioned in the thread, but worth a mention again. I've used, recently tested, and recommend all of these:
https://grayjay.app/ (multiplatform)
https://freetubeapp.io/ (multiplatform)
https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe (android)
https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe (android)

 

[Hepativore]

Now if somebody could get the "restricted" bypass add-on working again, we would be off to the races. I watch a lot of medical and surgical videos, and YouTube seems to be randomly restricting videos with no rhyme or reason, even things that do not feature gore or what-have-you.

This has really been cramping my style.