On 8/2/23 18:17, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
Hello,
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Subject : Re: youtube download problems Message-ID : <ec2d85f6-ef5f-8c13-38eb-ed19ae6fe2ca@suddenlinkmail.com> Date & Time: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 14:01:24 -0500
[DCR] == "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> has written:
DCR> On 8/2/23 09:02, Lew Wolfgang wrote: LW> > About a month ago youtube-dl stopped working for me with on Leap 15.4 LW> > This led me to try a fork of youtube-dl called yt-dlp. It pulls content LW> > from youtube slicker than snails through a goose! I wonder if youtube LW> > didn't change something that threw off youtube-dl. yt-dlp appears LW> > to be more current.
DCR> This is what I suspect. Streaming services went on a kick to up DCR> revenue a few months ago implementing access DCR> restrictions. youtube likely joined the party.
I don't think so. I am still able to download without any problems.
I think the problem with Leap 15.4 is that youtube-dl or yt-dlp is out of date.
I'm using the very latest of git head for both.
I am happy to see that the sound quality of youtube has improved since around April.
If I recall, youtube-dl has a way to check it's currency. I tried that but it didn't help. For the record, I've only downloaded content that I've previously purchased, one way or the other. I just purchased five CD's a couple of weeks ago, not for the whole album, but just to rip one or two tracks. I recently noticed that the youtube downloads can be higher quality than the cdr files off of CD's. I load the flac files onto a usb memory stick for the entertainment system in my car. As an aside, I'm a bit confused about youtube. The music content there is huge, I found lots of music from the '50's and before, and the audio quality is superb. It seems to be better than Napster ever was, yet they were sued out of existence. How does youtube get away with it? Do they pay the DRM fees out of advertising revenue? Or do they just ignore the whole DRM thing and can get away with it because they're so large? I even found Gogi Grant singing "The Wayward Wind" from 1952. I had a crush on her when I was a kid. Regards, Lew