• voxel@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    same with “fake” png websites. they usually just ask you to complete a captcha or sth and then actually give you the transparent image.

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    10 months ago

    I’ve had a good experience with youpak, you just take the url from whatever YouTube video you’re on and change “tube” of YouTube.com/shegaiabfvtbrbw to “pak” so it’s youpak.com/whateverwhateverwhatever and the dropdown right at the top has the download or convert to MP3 buttons right there.

    I do use Firefox with an adblocker so idk if it’s a cancerous site otherwise.

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    10 months ago

    Also the pirate movie sites that you can’t use without adblocker because without it wherever you click it opens a new window.

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      10 months ago

      What I hate about those is when they switch sites but leave the ad ridden husk that gets worse and I need to figure out what southeast Asian domain I need to switch my tabs to.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    10 months ago

    I have a little app that lets me send it a Spotify playlist and then it goes and finds the matching song on YouTube, converts it, and downloads it all in a big batch. Took forever to fuckin’ find and it was of course on a site like that. Been a while since I used it; probably doesn’t even work anymore. I tried like 5 others before finding that one, and they were all broken.

    The dumb thing is I only wanted it because even though I use the local file thing and still pay for Spotify, it wouldn’t actually play anything whenever I didn’t have Internet access, making it’s own built in system of “downloading” and playing files locally useless.

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    10 months ago

    Someone’s using yt-dlp and ffmpeg wrong if they’re getting ads.

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    10 months ago

    It reminds me of trying to find ROMs online as a kid, the link is almost always the smallest link, and almost never the five green DOWNLOAD buttons.

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    10 months ago

    More people need to learn about yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Can’t talk about the seedy anime websites, but youtube-mp3 conversion is so easily done yourself without havaing to visit any virus-pushing sites once you figure out how.

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      10 months ago

      From my time at Tumblr and DeviantArt I am really familiar with stuff like ffmpeg, but I don’t think it is the type you are referring too.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        “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.

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          10 months ago

          two doesnt ‘qualify’ as a couple. two IS couple. a couple is two

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        10 months ago

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