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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's a hell of a lot more convenient to go to a shady site with an adblocker installed than install/update Python and a couple command line packages before manually performing conversion yourself.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can yt-dlg right off the microsoft store on windows which is just a straight up GUI for yt-dlp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

rarely use the cli anymore. the gui works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"A couple command line packages", well, since both yt-dlp and ffmpeg are command line tools and two technically qualifies as "a couple", this is technically correct, but making it seem like much more of a big deal than it is at the same time.

Also, you do not have to install Python for any of this. Never mind having Python installed is a good idea anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

two doesnt 'qualify' as a couple. two IS couple. a couple is two

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlp has the -x option to extract the audio, and as far as I can tell it doesn't reencode which is fast. Ripping music from youtube is a single command. yt-dlp -x url

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

True, but it needs ffmpeg in its path to do that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This has the same vibes as one of those commercials that tries to sell a convoluted single use kitchen tool by showing a bunch of people too disingenuously incompetent to handle the established standard, actually simple, way of doing it.

https://youtu.be/qM4zMofsI7w?

This sort of thing. Make the simple problem seem impossible to solve, so the useless product feels more necessary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

/r/wheredidthesodago, one of my old stomping grounds, was dedicated to this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

on linux at least, its one command to install, one command to run. worth the 'effort'