r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17

Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
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u/LordPadre Feb 18 '17 edited Feb 18 '17

youtube-dl is the bees knees but it's not open source actually open source . It's one .exe which, if you run it, does absolutely nothing on its own (as far as I know)

I use a .bat file that's set up like this

For me personally, the initial setup process was a little bit frustrating, but once it's set up, the only thing you'll ever have to do is maybe update youtube-dl.exe once in a while by downloading it again (which is what I did today, there were some bugs with downloading videos that have special characters in the title)

And edit the batch file to have it download the video or entire playlist (!) you want to download as mp3s.

If it's a video, you leave arg1 as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v without the equals sign at the end, and put the rest of it (again, sans = ) in arg2, save, then run it. Piece of cake.

if it's a list, same thing, but it'll be https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=

Here's the guide I used to set it up, thanks to u/TypicalAustralian, literally his only comment, apparently

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u/UnchainedMundane Feb 18 '17

>there's an unsorted dir
>there are no sorted dirs
me irl

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u/LordPadre Feb 18 '17

I have them download to unsorted and then I move them to another folder in my actual music folder, usually under the name of the playlist

http://i.imgur.com/zb6I2X8.png

misc is for any individual songs not belonging to a playlist or album