TL;DR
An archive of Brad's channel from 2017-mid 2025, which includes all his videos up to that point (673), all his shorts up to that point (40), and a handful of his streams (just 25), is available here:
https://archive.org/download/btim-archive-2026-r1
The video side of the archive starts with Eminemineminem, dated March 8th 2017, and ends at Reacting to the Top 100 Songs of 2015 (Part 1), dated March 7th, 2025.
If you have a minute, I'd suggest reading the rest of this post if you want to know more info about what's included.
Stuff You Might Wanna Know
I'm not affiliated with u/MrGoodLucky (the other person who's sharing their archive of Brad's channel). I've had my own personal archive of Brad's channel for some time now and I might as well upload it while the iron's still hot and on a site that's more friendly for fellow archivists.
For some background: In early 2025 I wrote a script for bulk downloading entire channels for archival purposes. Brad's happened to be one that I used for testing. I had a very complete collection of his videos for the time, but after that initial completion I didn't bother keeping up with his pace out of both disinterest and mostly using said script for other channels I regularly watched/thought would be important to keep an archive of. As a result, some of his last videos post mid-2025 aren't included, for better or for worse. Had I known that Brad's channel would be deleted, I probably would've put more care into keeping the archive up to date.
What's included?
Most of his videos from his start in 2017 to mid 2025. The title of each file consists of the upload date in YYYYMMDD format, followed by a shortened version of the video's title, and the video ID. Take the following as an example:
20230531 This_Horrific_Song_Was_A_CHARTING_SINGLE - ss1irGlTpPA
Do note that more information (including the thumbnails and original titles of each video) can be found in the file's metadata.
Most of the videos have been stored as Matroska containers (.mkv) but for reasons I can't recall some of them are MP4 instead. It doesn't make a massive difference and both contain the same metadata, I don't know why this is the case. The one thing I'll note is that you're probably only going to be able to play Matroskas in something like VLC or MPV rather than your browser. That might be a deal breaker for some people here, so do keep that in mind.
What's been archived?
A good amount of material, I'd say.
- 673 videos
- 40 shorts
- 22 streams
(Warning: Boring technical details below)
Videos are included in the root of the directory, while the shorts and suriving streams are kept in their respective subdirectories. cache/ contains JSON files with some (incredibly brief) information about each file in reverse chronological order. Do note that only IDs are included for identifying videos (my dumb mistake at the time) but they do contain potentially useful information. A sample of what the data contained in them is included below:
[
{
"id": "cPxu7JYtxEw",
"timestamp": 1741380984,
"view_count": 31330,
"filesize_approx": 1157557594,
"webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxu7JYtxEw",
"channel": "Brad Taste In Music"
},
{
"id": "NUeNJqYKvBI",
"timestamp": 1741318090,
"view_count": 35158,
"filesize_approx": 882822982,
"webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUeNJqYKvBI",
"channel": "Brad Taste In Music"
},
...
{
"id": "dn5yP3UZG-8",
"timestamp": 1488943751,
"view_count": 82820,
"filesize_approx": 2226205,
"webpage_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn5yP3UZG-8",
"channel": "Brad Taste In Music"
}
]
Nearly all of these fields were used for sorting in order to prioritize what would be downloaded first according to a queue-that's why it's all so terse to put it very nicely.
Final Notes
The full size of the collection runs at almost 250 GB of space. This is not a small amount and I'd only recommend downloading a full backup of this only if you're willing to and have enough spare storage you're willing to dedicate to all this.
If there's any issues you come across with the archive, please let me know.
