if u want a way to bulk download youtube videos to mp3, use mediahuman if you have windows, been using it for a while to back up all the stuff i listen to on yt music
In my eyes piracy (currently) is not an enemy to artists and creators, but a necessity that ensures that streaming online services have minimum standards. As a wise man once said "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." As of today, piracy is one of the few places that care about the media and tries to make it available as long as possible, on the other hand companies (as you said) treat them as disposable products that are only worth during the time it makes the most money.
Intellectual property laws in general are a cobra farm. They were intended to protect creators and encourage innovation, but instead they are stifling innovation and harming creators.
I'm someone who tends to be against piracy, if its available for purchase (or near purchase in the case of video game license) in the way you are going to use it (so for music being able to purchase the album and locally download it) then I believe its immoral to pirate but thats the problem with all media besides really video games nowadays, there just, isn't an option to purchase, its ALL subscriptions, no option to buy and download modern shows or movies, and I don't want it physically, I want an MP3 and Movie/TV show library locally, and since ripping blu rays and CDs is legally the same as piracy (yes you can legally make back ups but you can't legally use those backups as a replacement for the original) I may as well pirate and its why I do for Movies and TV shows, and in a way music since I use a modded version of spotify that adblocks by spoofing a premium subscription, I tend to only interact with a couple shows, movies, and music albums, I would be happy to buy JUST those shows or JUST those movies, but thats not an option I am given
Statements like these make me want the 28 / up to 56 years of copyright US law back, but of course those copyright gremlins in the 70s wanted it extended to 95 years. The entire Flintstones cartoons, and 2001: A Space Odyssey would've been in the public domain by now.
I was the proud curator of my own mp3 library growing up, composed entirely of video game soundtracks, random dubstep from Soundcloud, and, inexplicably, "Gay and Dead" by Trial of the Golden Witch (I don't want to talk about it). I was kind of neurotic about it, though. Experiencing all my music through soundtracks instead of traditional albums trained me to be really picky about what music was allowed onto the "canonical playlist". I'd go through a 50 track OST and pick out three specimens that I'd want to listen to 100% of the time, in any mood, on repeat, and toss them into a compost heap playlist that slowly expanded like a fungus . Nothing was allowed to exist in its context, nothing had a time and place. I didn't even like listening to soundtracks as background music until I had fully put them through this process of vetting and dissection, and knew every track by name. I wonder why I never got that into the Homestuck soundtrack... Sorry I think I just spent a whole paragraph describing a mental illness instead of answering the question. Point is, what ended up driving me away from the mp3 library was inability to sustain my own pickiness. It got too time consuming and made me averse to exploring new music, so I gravitated to clicking on weird-looking youtube playlists and surrendering to the luck of the draw. Although I don't use spotify, I think this is also the reason it appeals to many people. It naturally expands your horizons in a way that would otherwise require conscious effort. I don't think your message is wrong either, I just think some people don't have involved enough of a relationship with their music for manual curation to be appealing.
It really doesn't help that the music player UI/UX hasn't evolved since, like 2012. It's always an afterthought in media players. Curating and organizing your own music is SUCH a hassle.
Me: Dang if only there was some way to comfortably listen to such great bangers such as "omw to visit ur mom" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin" Without having to deal with hostile software forcing me to pay money for features that used to be free. I truly wish I didn't have to keep my phone open, draining it's battery, just to listen to my favorite music that is only available on UA-cam. Shadok:
The only reason I use Spotify is because it's A LOT more convenient to setup playlists, find songs, etc. Although I def 100% agree with what you're saying. Might use Spotify to get songs, arrange playlists and then download them for downloaded use >:3
thats exactly how i started downloading songs! Found a spotify playlist downloader downloaded all of the songs and it even came with the meta data so you got things like the album cover too its pretty neat!
@@shigzn yeah! you just make your spotify playlist public copy link and after watching one ad it downloads your entire playlist into a zip folder on your device!
Spotify gives you the option to download the songs in the settings menu im pretty sure. Theres no other reason why spotify should be taking up nearly as much space as it does lol. Anyway i use Spotify over other things because: 1. Spotify is extremely easy to use 2. Spotify is much more accessible than, say going into my files and searching for the name of a song manually. 3. Playlists, Artist pages, Discover weeklies, toggleable shuffle mode, etc. 4. Last listed but definitely not the last reason at all, is that its easily cross platform, its the same spotify on all my devices no matter what, no matter where i am.
Not good ones, to my knowledge. Except those that literally record the audio. There are some CLI programs out there that will actually fetch all the metadata and songs from your Spotify playlist and automatically download using youtube. Unfortunately I don't remember if it the program was spotdl or spotify-dl - both are open source Python programs on github.
That's so true, there was this guy who made "remixes" of this artist's songs, he made them extended and kinda remixed, I found it cool and then downloaded, after a while I had to reset my phone and forgor to make backup of my songs, when I was searching for his remixes, I found out It his channel basically vanished from YT, I had to really making an hour long deep search for it. Now I know It to never trust streaming services lol
UA-cam probably banned him automatically because their music database is very easy to exploit and weaponize, especially now since randomized AI music can be inserted into it in hopes of catching a popular video to leech money off of.
im the exact same way, because of my niche music tastes i also have gone the way of an mp3 library. never used spotify a day in my life and im happy i havent. my personal way of doing it is recording stereo mix on to audacity and saving that. time-consuming, but definitely the safest way to prevent any viruses edit after finishing watching: to clarify, been downloading all my life! my dad taught me how to do it and ive never known anything else. i have a personal library in the gigabytes with over a thousand songs (and growing!). and because its direct unaltered audio from youtube, the quality is usually really good! at least to my standards
Oh god finally someone else! I have three flash drives full of music and my cheap ass phone is crammed with SiIvagunner rips so I can only have like 3 apps.
I'm in a similar situation as well. Collecting CD's and copying them to FLACs on the computer, and having my very own music database. And one cool thing about CD's is that you can buy used ones for very cheap if you know where to look. I don't need to pay for a data plan or unreliable streaming services!
WOAH i was just surfing on neocities and found your website and then I was like "I recognize that character" and then i realized i knew it from this video! also just realized youve got your link in the description
I use a loooooooot of spotify so i have background music at work, but this did inspire me to make my own mp3 library again! Downloaded winamp for the nostalgia and off i go just enjoying music like i did back in my early teens! This video is great, thank you!
You found the best yellow, and I LOVE your design! I pay for and constantly use Spotify bc its recommendation algorythm provides me a ton of cool obscure music I wouldn't be able to keep track of normally, and I manage a lot of playlists on the fly. That said I still feel these are excuses for my laziness about securely archiving content and also investigating independent creativity outside its interaction with mainline platforms.
meow meow. I also have "special" music taste and have been adding to my own personal collection of mp3s for over a decade, too. Feels validating to know that I'm not alone in this, because child me felt like a weirdo for not liking the same "normal" music that everyone else around me did.
im definetly getting into downloading and keeping songs i like to listen to (using apps like musicbee for pc). mostly because i listen to really underground soundcloud artists. if they suddenly decide one day that "i hate this song so much, im gonna delete it," than atleast i have the song and am able to listen to or repost the song if anyone would be looking for it
I always try to buy CDs of my most favorite artists/albums for a couple reasons. First, I just love being able to actually own a physical thing. Did ur PC just die on u? No problem! You still got your favorite music. Second, I think owning full albums helps me appreciate and value the music more. Not just because it's more expensive, but also because listening to a CD forces you to only listen to that album, encouraging you to listen to the whole thing without stopping. It helps me develop a greater patience for longer music listening sessions, and also it helps me not get distracted with other flashy things that even an mp3 library has, like easily accessible other songs that could distract me from the beauty of listening to a full album just from one click to play a different song. Finally, the third reason I like CDs is because I actually see it as something that I could actually pass down as a sort of "family heirloom." Like I just imagine myself amassing a giant collection of hundreds or maybe even thousands of my favorite CDs after say 40 years that I could then give to my future kids. I just think that thought is kinda cool. And CDs have a decent lifespan as well, I think around 100 years. I just don't see mp3's as something you can pass down like an heirloom, since they are more volatile if something happens to your PC's drive, and let's be honest, physical things are just cooler. You get the full experience of seeing the cool artwork on the CD cover, the cool pamphlet that has song lyrics and talks about the album's inspiration or people the artist wants to thank (or literally anything lol, they are so fun to read!), and I love the clicky-clack of the plastic when you take the CDs out. It's sad that some of the newer CD containers are made worse and are more paper than plastic. Ik paper is better for the environment, but I want my CD covers to last lol, not fall apart and become one with the environment again before I die. Oh and also CDs are consistently better quality to listen to. Lol forgot that one, that's a pretty big reason too. I also often find that the FLAC digital copies are almost as expensive as the CDs, so you might as well just get a physical copy since it's basically the same audio quality as FLAC if not better and you get a physical thing to keep. Like literally just the difference of $10 and $15 sometimes. Plus, if you really want the convenience of an mp3 library, you can just buy a CD, rip it, and put that copy in your library and the CD on a nice shelf to look at. It's album cover is a piece of art in and of itself anyways, so I think that's cool too. And you always will have that CD to fall back on if anything happens to your mp3 library. Ok, rant over lol
oh also another thing, I do find streaming music super helpful though. In fact, that's how I listen to most my favorite music. That's also how I find new music and artists. But I don't use spotify and I hope I never will. UA-cam Music all the wayyyyy. CDs are expensive, so I have to be fine with listening to the streamed version of my favorite albums for a while until I actually can buy the CD.
Listening to Yume 2kki soundrack on Spotify ❌ Listening to Yume 2kki soundtrack on mp3 library ❌ Get lost in game for an an hour just to get to an obscure location to spend another hour sitting on a random bench listening to the same 4 second loop over and over✅
I don't know if I'd have enough storage to be able to do this yet, but maybe later on this would be a really good idea! Cuz there's some songs that aren't on Spotify that I really want to listen to and that makes me sad lol and it would be good to have a nice backup in case stuff happens
I've been contemplating carrying my own weight when it comes to playing games and watching my favorite shows, a backburner passion project is throwing together "definitive editions" of my favorite shows and movies and maybe slapping a couple on blu-ray, and this videos kinda swayed me in the direction of doing that for my music library. An lengthy task for a playlist spanning 1,000+ videos sure, but I'd take that over youtube just deciding I should have to stop what I'm doing and close 7 ads or what I can't have on a miniplayer
I guess the main problem here would be for people who like getting recommended new songs easily or people who like to shuffle their playlist in a way different from what the normal mp3 player offers (and audiophiles, but that was already mentioned in the video). I don't think we'll ever have a universal solution to the best way to listen to your music, and the most we can do is cross the objectively bad options off the list and suggest multiple solutions that vary per the type of music enjoyer.
0:24 omg is that a COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS reference!?!? Jokes aside it's cool to see you try this style of video and hope to see more like this between your bigger animation projects
Spotify has a feature that allows you to import mp3s and add them to playlists. Its a little clunky but it works well enough for me to have splatoon music next to the mountain of electronic music in my playlist, and it syncs automatically with my phone!
i always thought i was a weirdo for storing music in a giant MP3 folder; nearly everyone i know uses streaming services instead. i never expected to find a full-blown youtube video talking about how cool they are 👀 also, this video’s vibe is _immaculate_
I had mp3 library in a past, but now i just dont have time nor the energy to always sync it and have to download new songs. spotify is just easier in short term for me, tho it does frustrates me that some artists straightup block access to their music in my country
I think everyone should have even a small selection of MP3's downloaded in their phone for the off chance that they're somewhere that doesn't have connection.
Find me an offline player that can auto-play the way UA-cam music does and I'm sold. Idk what black magic is that, but I'm never going back to just randomly shuffling. And you can even upload your own mp3s for anything that isn't there already, so even that problem is solved.
I had a chance to buy a pretty nice external hard drive that I've been filling with music, movies, shows, even thousands of books in pdf form. It's literally become a little library and I love being able to do what I want when I want with no ads, and it can't be taken away from me. I can't go back.
Personally I reccomend getting a phone that you have lying around thats still fairly modern but isnt your current phone not on any plans or anything, delete EVERYTHING you can from it, installing an mp3 player app (sometimes they do still come with a music player but usually the third party apps are better), and using that as an mp3 player. Saves space on your real phone but you still have all your offline music. Oh and if you can, wipe android or AppleOS from it and install a third party lightweight OS that supports mp3 playing if ya can. Good to save as MUCH space as possible for funkadelic groovemania tunes.
I still use an MP3 player, got a cool one that looks like the Idroid from Metal gear solid, I hate having everything on a phone or an algorithm telling me what to like. Keep making the wonderful videos, you inspired me to get back into web creation again.
honestly i love your videos, theyre super relaxing, your artstyle is amazing and as a plus your voice is actually calm and the videos are paced slowly unlike alot of the stuff the algorithm pushes these days! honestly the only reason i havent fully moved over to my files is just the fact that my phone probably can't handle all the shit downloaded on my laptop, and the fact that i love variety in my music probably doesnt help.. also i think we need a bonkumiru vinyl..
I was also thinking that purchasing the audio files individually and being able to download them as many times as you want is a more convenient way to own music. The only problem would be preexisting piracy. I mean, I don't think most people would suddenly start paying for something they've always done for free.
I agree with this video for the most part except for the one about CDs being inconvenient - that's mostly true but ripping them is great because you can have the resulting rip in any quality you want, and plus used ones are pretty cheap at the moment
One thing you can do is get physical media, then digitise it. This is difficult with vinyl, but extremely easy with CDs and cassettes. The audio quality, in the case of CDs, is quite nice, thankfully. Furthermore, many libraries (at least in my region) carry such physical media, so you can borrow the albums from there and digitise it at no cost to you. The libraries here also allow patrons to request purchases, so you can have input on what the library buys---again, at no (additional) cost to you. Obviously they probably won't have titles in your particular niche, but I've found that the ones near me have an abundance of really interesting and obscure titles that I would never have found if I hadn't explored the library's collection.
I'm glad I'm not the only person left on this barren earth that still buys music and has a music library! It really really is the best of all worlds, the only shortcoming I feel is discoverability, I still juggle a soundcloud subscription mainly just to find new artists and sometimes even games.
I actually used to keep a MP3 music library, but my problem with it was the discoverability... Spotify is just really good at helping me find new music
I really gotta make myself an MP3 library. I really like the shuffle feature so I would probably try to code a simple program but I would probably have an MP3 library for archive purposes. 2:19 Apple Music has some advantages. It’s just that people on the internet tend to use Spotify which is why it has more culture about it.
HECK YEAH!!! i started downloading mp3s cus i didnt have the money for a spotify subscription and i didnt want to be perpetually connected to the internet to listen to music, and also giving money to youtube or spotify just seemed like a really lame thing to do lol. im used to pirate basically everything since i was a kid so it just seemed like the natural thing to do for me, but i still try to buy particular albums in digital when i want to help the creator. i live in a country where piracy is a lot more commonplace and less legally restricted than in the US, but nowadays i see more and more people who have no idea how to download anything and it makes me a bit sad lol. good video!!!
There's actually apps nowadays that help you automatically sync files between you computer and your phone even across the internet and some of them even have streaming-like ui's and such to make it easier to navigate.
Few things about this video: 1. Having audio files IS physical media. The physical media is now the hard drive of your computer or your phone. 2. A really good music player is foobar2000, very good! 3. If you're using tools that rip audio from streaming websites like youtube/soundcloud (be aware this is piracy) then your files likely have no tags and a music player will only display a file name. There's a useful program called Mp3Tag that makes it super easy to add tags to your files so they display correctly on music players!
Also I agree with not feeling good about people asking for music to be on spotify. I want that music on Bandcamp! I can support the artist better that way!
I was gifted an MP3 player at the end of last year and since then, I've been going absolutely wild converting my CDs onto there, and I'm glad to see a bunch of other people doing similar things! I have roughly 400 songs so far, and there are still many more to come.
This made me dig up an old mp3 player my dad has stored away, and im excited to get started on replacing the battery. I rlly hope it works, I don't know jack about tech. I'm not starting from scratch, as I already have a "modern" mp3 player. I just like how big the older one is, alongside its physical buttons. (I have a Creative Vision M Zen ver. btw if anyone knows anything about it :>)
I have a massive mp3 library ive built up since i was a kid, and recently im building it up again because of a site that has like most video game soundtracks for free, and you can also mass download albums if you contributed back to the site!
I don't listen to songs much, but this sounds pretty interesting, having your own control for music and nobody being abke to take it away sounds very nice for a music enjoyer!
Personally, the 3DS music player is the best music player. - The 3DS can accept high sd card storage - The recording/microphone feature can make you sound like razxdflipnote - The ability to give your music a change of pace/pitch/atmosphere
The main reason why I switched to mp3 is time, like really it takes me about 3hrs to dl around 50 songs but I don't have to listen to ads or go through pop ups or have to search for it ever again. It's really boring to do, but you win in the long run
My home server has become my best friend in terms of music, just this last new year we hit over a year of music in time. (as in it would take more than a year to listen to every track in a row.)
I have extreme respect for people who download their music as MP3s as growing up I didn't have internet access at home for most of my life so I had to resort to downloading MP3s. I used to buy empty CDs from the store then burn MP3s I downloaded onto my laptop onto my CDs at school. I did have an MP3 player and a phone at the time but the storage space on both, even combined were BEYOND low (even for mid-late 10s) which is why I preferred having everything physical. I still prefer having MP3s over streaming to this day but I now use both interchangeably, usually depending on the genre.
6:10 one of the biggest reasons i permanently unsubbed from spotify was the fact that Chasing Rainbows by Bring me the Horizon, then took it off permanently, and everyone has asked for it back since and they wont listen.
I do a mix of mp3 and cds. I have an mp3 player so that I can put audiobooks and podcasts on there, as well as music, and I can listen with proper wired headphones. I constantly lose the adapter for my phone. And it saves both space and battery on my phone, so it just makes sense for me. But mp3's aren't the highest quality sometimes, it varies. I like getting flacs when I can from bandcamp and khinsider but those aren't always viable either, if a band isn't on bandcamp or making videogame music. So if there's an album I really really like and want to own it in a nicer quality, I'll buy a cd and listen to it with good headphones or speakers. And using this, I've never really wanted spotify.
I also have my own downloaded music library. I never understood how streaming was supposed to be more convenient than just loading up my phone with all the music I like, and I don't want to have to rely on some outside power to put songs on a service.
It's so cool to know I'm not the only one doing this. As someone who doesn't have a huge data plan and loves music, it always bothered me that I couldn't listen to music whenever I was out of my house. When I realized I could just download all the music I wanted into my phone it felt like a revelation. I immediately ripped all of the CDs I had into a hard drive and copied it to my phone. Nowadays I'm sitting at around 20GBs of music, enough music that I won't get sick of it for years to come.
I'm an audiophile (not a super big one but I can appreciate good sound), and I stick to Deezer because they're relatively cheap compared to buying an album, while having HIFI audio, not taking up as much space and also easily being able to sync stuff.
I’ve only recently been starting collecting records but I’ve found that I get to enjoy the music much more due to that extra setup time I put into actually getting to listen to it. What makes them more enjoyable is I get to enjoy the album art and all of the packaging in my own physical version I don’t currently have any mp3 players of my own so I have also been downloading some of my favorite band’s albums onto my 3ds, like the sounds app makes for a really good mp3 player that I have been using a lot to sleep to or just to stay off my phone when I want to be productive but also want something to listen to other than the radio
fun fact a version of calamari inkantation that i really liked got taken off UA-cam buuuut i conveniently have it burned onto a cd. i'm sure there are other videos of that same version but i think it's fun that i have it saved forever
Regarding the syncing. Syncthing was been pretty good. Though, for work? No, constantly keeps on re-adding me previously deleted files, although that could be related to the horrible internet connection I have at school. Should be really good for Music
i love pirating but i just cant not stream music spotify helps me find SO MANY new music artists and i am constantly listening to new music and other peoples playlists
youtube to mp3 my beloved
the Jolly Roger is calling to me
I love these services, too, but I wish people weren't as open about sharing direct links to these websites.
And thus, the world entered the great pirate era!
if u want a way to bulk download youtube videos to mp3, use mediahuman if you have windows, been using it for a while to back up all the stuff i listen to on yt music
@@cyberneticsquid the fact that you can download ALL of your soundcloud likes OR reposts OR entire playlists with one link is wonderful.
best part about CDs:
-No ADs
-You can listen to them on a PlayStation 2
a PS1 & PS3 as well
And the dreamcast and the og xbox (with the latter being able to rip cds as well)
Or an X-Box.
retro consoles are so overpriced, games too, but is what it is... hmmhh :(
@@Akira-Aerins i hate it when xbox is wrriten like that
In my eyes piracy (currently) is not an enemy to artists and creators, but a necessity that ensures that streaming online services have minimum standards. As a wise man once said "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
As of today, piracy is one of the few places that care about the media and tries to make it available as long as possible, on the other hand companies (as you said) treat them as disposable products that are only worth during the time it makes the most money.
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[insert gabe n. quote]
@@KKJKJH "My favorite class is the Spy"
Intellectual property laws in general are a cobra farm. They were intended to protect creators and encourage innovation, but instead they are stifling innovation and harming creators.
I'm someone who tends to be against piracy, if its available for purchase (or near purchase in the case of video game license) in the way you are going to use it (so for music being able to purchase the album and locally download it) then I believe its immoral to pirate
but thats the problem with all media besides really video games nowadays, there just, isn't an option to purchase, its ALL subscriptions, no option to buy and download modern shows or movies, and I don't want it physically, I want an MP3 and Movie/TV show library locally, and since ripping blu rays and CDs is legally the same as piracy (yes you can legally make back ups but you can't legally use those backups as a replacement for the original) I may as well pirate and its why I do for Movies and TV shows, and in a way music since I use a modded version of spotify that adblocks by spoofing a premium subscription, I tend to only interact with a couple shows, movies, and music albums, I would be happy to buy JUST those shows or JUST those movies, but thats not an option I am given
The Dev of the videogame Ultrakill said it best "Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it"
hakita :D
wise words
we luv hakita
remember: piracy doesn't hurt anyone if the product is no longer being sold
Statements like these make me want the 28 / up to 56 years of copyright US law back, but of course those copyright gremlins in the 70s wanted it extended to 95 years. The entire Flintstones cartoons, and 2001: A Space Odyssey would've been in the public domain by now.
remember: piracy doesn't hurt anyone🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠YEAAAAAAAAAH TORRENT OUTRUN 2 ON THE INTERNET ARCHIVE
the 95.5 gb of audio files on my hard drive:
edit: i double checked, my bad it turns out its 124 GB of audio files
some day I too will get there
i think thats a little different because you Do remixes and ytpmvs like no duh youre gonna have a lot of sources on hand, no?
@@catmacopter8545 dude. theyre audio files.
pathetic.
mine is 183 gb
hell yeah borther. 167GB and counting
I was the proud curator of my own mp3 library growing up, composed entirely of video game soundtracks, random dubstep from Soundcloud, and, inexplicably, "Gay and Dead" by Trial of the Golden Witch (I don't want to talk about it). I was kind of neurotic about it, though. Experiencing all my music through soundtracks instead of traditional albums trained me to be really picky about what music was allowed onto the "canonical playlist". I'd go through a 50 track OST and pick out three specimens that I'd want to listen to 100% of the time, in any mood, on repeat, and toss them into a compost heap playlist that slowly expanded like a fungus . Nothing was allowed to exist in its context, nothing had a time and place. I didn't even like listening to soundtracks as background music until I had fully put them through this process of vetting and dissection, and knew every track by name. I wonder why I never got that into the Homestuck soundtrack...
Sorry I think I just spent a whole paragraph describing a mental illness instead of answering the question. Point is, what ended up driving me away from the mp3 library was inability to sustain my own pickiness. It got too time consuming and made me averse to exploring new music, so I gravitated to clicking on weird-looking youtube playlists and surrendering to the luck of the draw. Although I don't use spotify, I think this is also the reason it appeals to many people. It naturally expands your horizons in a way that would otherwise require conscious effort. I don't think your message is wrong either, I just think some people don't have involved enough of a relationship with their music for manual curation to be appealing.
It really doesn't help that the music player UI/UX hasn't evolved since, like 2012. It's always an afterthought in media players. Curating and organizing your own music is SUCH a hassle.
@@Eyevou My laziness is a service issue... I see. I couldn't agree more.
Damn didn't expect A. Ham of all people to be here. You still do Undertale vids?
@@X-SPONGEDalexander hamilton? (jk i know who the guy from the hit podcast deltacast is)
@@chancho_diamante NO!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!? DON'T SAY THAT NAME!!! YOU'RE GOING TO SUMMON..... *_THEM_*
Broke: MP3 Library
Woke: FLAC Library
So True.
EHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHHE
damn i must be woke af then
i have a .mp3 and .wav library
3DS Music Library my man
as a VGM musician i publish my stuff to spotify, but there is no way i would actually use it myself. i love my folder of 2 billion mp3s.
As a vgm composer who does not upload to Spotify, I also love having my 2gb folder of mp3s
Real
@@Fefeather 2^10 gb
@@4bSix86f61 bros got a terabyte oh lord 😭
i have an uncountable amount of touhou songs downloaded on my phone
even touhou lolk?
you got imperishable night?
Got pandemonic planet? Or pure furies?
SAAAAAAAME
touhou mentioned
Thousands of MP3's and UA-cam Music my beloved.
Me: Dang if only there was some way to comfortably listen to such great bangers such as "omw to visit ur mom" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin" Without having to deal with hostile software forcing me to pay money for features that used to be free. I truly wish I didn't have to keep my phone open, draining it's battery, just to listen to my favorite music that is only available on UA-cam.
Shadok:
omw to visit your mom is a musical masterpiece i love it
Hold up I gotta look those up.
Ok these are peak.
The only reason I use Spotify is because it's A LOT more convenient to setup playlists, find songs, etc.
Although I def 100% agree with what you're saying. Might use Spotify to get songs, arrange playlists and then download them for downloaded use >:3
thats exactly how i started downloading songs! Found a spotify playlist downloader downloaded all of the songs and it even came with the meta data so you got things like the album cover too its pretty neat!
@dugetwin oh shit theres spotify downloaders?! That makes it even better XD
@@shigzn yeah! you just make your spotify playlist public copy link and after watching one ad it downloads your entire playlist into a zip folder on your device!
Spotify gives you the option to download the songs in the settings menu im pretty sure. Theres no other reason why spotify should be taking up nearly as much space as it does lol.
Anyway i use Spotify over other things because:
1. Spotify is extremely easy to use
2. Spotify is much more accessible than, say going into my files and searching for the name of a song manually.
3. Playlists, Artist pages, Discover weeklies, toggleable shuffle mode, etc.
4. Last listed but definitely not the last reason at all, is that its easily cross platform, its the same spotify on all my devices no matter what, no matter where i am.
Not good ones, to my knowledge. Except those that literally record the audio.
There are some CLI programs out there that will actually fetch all the metadata and songs from your Spotify playlist and automatically download using youtube.
Unfortunately I don't remember if it the program was spotdl or spotify-dl - both are open source Python programs on github.
You have awoken we, the music downloaders
That's so true, there was this guy who made "remixes" of this artist's songs, he made them extended and kinda remixed, I found it cool and then downloaded, after a while I had to reset my phone and forgor to make backup of my songs, when I was searching for his remixes, I found out It his channel basically vanished from YT, I had to really making an hour long deep search for it. Now I know It to never trust streaming services lol
UA-cam probably banned him automatically because their music database is very easy to exploit and weaponize, especially now since randomized AI music can be inserted into it in hopes of catching a popular video to leech money off of.
I noticed your head moves like a South Park character
im the exact same way, because of my niche music tastes i also have gone the way of an mp3 library. never used spotify a day in my life and im happy i havent. my personal way of doing it is recording stereo mix on to audacity and saving that. time-consuming, but definitely the safest way to prevent any viruses
edit after finishing watching: to clarify, been downloading all my life! my dad taught me how to do it and ive never known anything else. i have a personal library in the gigabytes with over a thousand songs (and growing!). and because its direct unaltered audio from youtube, the quality is usually really good! at least to my standards
Oh god finally someone else! I have three flash drives full of music and my cheap ass phone is crammed with SiIvagunner rips so I can only have like 3 apps.
I have downloaded all of the king for another day albums on my phone as well haha
I'm in a similar situation as well. Collecting CD's and copying them to FLACs on the computer, and having my very own music database. And one cool thing about CD's is that you can buy used ones for very cheap if you know where to look. I don't need to pay for a data plan or unreliable streaming services!
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I use a loooooooot of spotify so i have background music at work, but this did inspire me to make my own mp3 library again! Downloaded winamp for the nostalgia and off i go just enjoying music like i did back in my early teens!
This video is great, thank you!
6:40 there are third party software that downloads your spotify playlists as mp3 files
Wait cause I actually NEED to know some rn
Me toooo @@CatCalled
@@Scrypturr spotDL is a great tool i use, i don't use it for playlists but i'm pretty sure it supports them!
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I pay for and constantly use Spotify bc its recommendation algorythm provides me a ton of cool obscure music I wouldn't be able to keep track of normally, and I manage a lot of playlists on the fly. That said I still feel these are excuses for my laziness about securely archiving content and also investigating independent creativity outside its interaction with mainline platforms.
meow meow. I also have "special" music taste and have been adding to my own personal collection of mp3s for over a decade, too. Feels validating to know that I'm not alone in this, because child me felt like a weirdo for not liking the same "normal" music that everyone else around me did.
im definetly getting into downloading and keeping songs i like to listen to (using apps like musicbee for pc). mostly because i listen to really underground soundcloud artists. if they suddenly decide one day that "i hate this song so much, im gonna delete it," than atleast i have the song and am able to listen to or repost the song if anyone would be looking for it
I always try to buy CDs of my most favorite artists/albums for a couple reasons. First, I just love being able to actually own a physical thing. Did ur PC just die on u? No problem! You still got your favorite music.
Second, I think owning full albums helps me appreciate and value the music more. Not just because it's more expensive, but also because listening to a CD forces you to only listen to that album, encouraging you to listen to the whole thing without stopping. It helps me develop a greater patience for longer music listening sessions, and also it helps me not get distracted with other flashy things that even an mp3 library has, like easily accessible other songs that could distract me from the beauty of listening to a full album just from one click to play a different song.
Finally, the third reason I like CDs is because I actually see it as something that I could actually pass down as a sort of "family heirloom." Like I just imagine myself amassing a giant collection of hundreds or maybe even thousands of my favorite CDs after say 40 years that I could then give to my future kids. I just think that thought is kinda cool. And CDs have a decent lifespan as well, I think around 100 years. I just don't see mp3's as something you can pass down like an heirloom, since they are more volatile if something happens to your PC's drive, and let's be honest, physical things are just cooler. You get the full experience of seeing the cool artwork on the CD cover, the cool pamphlet that has song lyrics and talks about the album's inspiration or people the artist wants to thank (or literally anything lol, they are so fun to read!), and I love the clicky-clack of the plastic when you take the CDs out. It's sad that some of the newer CD containers are made worse and are more paper than plastic. Ik paper is better for the environment, but I want my CD covers to last lol, not fall apart and become one with the environment again before I die.
Oh and also CDs are consistently better quality to listen to. Lol forgot that one, that's a pretty big reason too. I also often find that the FLAC digital copies are almost as expensive as the CDs, so you might as well just get a physical copy since it's basically the same audio quality as FLAC if not better and you get a physical thing to keep. Like literally just the difference of $10 and $15 sometimes. Plus, if you really want the convenience of an mp3 library, you can just buy a CD, rip it, and put that copy in your library and the CD on a nice shelf to look at. It's album cover is a piece of art in and of itself anyways, so I think that's cool too. And you always will have that CD to fall back on if anything happens to your mp3 library.
Ok, rant over lol
oh also another thing, I do find streaming music super helpful though. In fact, that's how I listen to most my favorite music. That's also how I find new music and artists. But I don't use spotify and I hope I never will. UA-cam Music all the wayyyyy. CDs are expensive, so I have to be fine with listening to the streamed version of my favorite albums for a while until I actually can buy the CD.
Cds are the way, rip their contents and have 2 copies for the price of one at high quality
i feel actually inspired to get my mp3 library now, thanks shadow!
i figured this was a great video because it made me realize how much i miss my mp3 library… i think im gonna jump off the streaming ship
0:10 Yume Nikki moment
Lots of other Yume Nikki sounds too!!!
Listening to Yume 2kki soundrack on Spotify ❌
Listening to Yume 2kki soundtrack on mp3 library ❌
Get lost in game for an an hour just to get to an obscure location to spend another hour sitting on a random bench listening to the same 4 second loop over and over✅
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Love your content btw. Also your lil’ avatar reminds me of how I like dressing. ^^
YASSS QUEEN SLAYYYYY I LOVE DOWNLOADING MUSIC!!! I LOVE NOT BEING SHACKLED BY MY CORPORATE OVERLORDS!!!!!
UA-cam has all I need, but it's an intesting idea for sure.
I don't know if I'd have enough storage to be able to do this yet, but maybe later on this would be a really good idea! Cuz there's some songs that aren't on Spotify that I really want to listen to and that makes me sad lol and it would be good to have a nice backup in case stuff happens
I've been contemplating carrying my own weight when it comes to playing games and watching my favorite shows, a backburner passion project is throwing together "definitive editions" of my favorite shows and movies and maybe slapping a couple on blu-ray, and this videos kinda swayed me in the direction of doing that for my music library. An lengthy task for a playlist spanning 1,000+ videos sure, but I'd take that over youtube just deciding I should have to stop what I'm doing and close 7 ads or what I can't have on a miniplayer
I guess the main problem here would be for people who like getting recommended new songs easily or people who like to shuffle their playlist in a way different from what the normal mp3 player offers (and audiophiles, but that was already mentioned in the video). I don't think we'll ever have a universal solution to the best way to listen to your music, and the most we can do is cross the objectively bad options off the list and suggest multiple solutions that vary per the type of music enjoyer.
0:24 omg is that a COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS reference!?!?
Jokes aside it's cool to see you try this style of video and hope to see more like this between your bigger animation projects
Spotify has a feature that allows you to import mp3s and add them to playlists. Its a little clunky but it works well enough for me to have splatoon music next to the mountain of electronic music in my playlist, and it syncs automatically with my phone!
i always thought i was a weirdo for storing music in a giant MP3 folder; nearly everyone i know uses streaming services instead. i never expected to find a full-blown youtube video talking about how cool they are 👀
also, this video’s vibe is _immaculate_
The deer returns AND talking as their avatar on a video to boot. Blessed day.
I had mp3 library in a past, but now i just dont have time nor the energy to always sync it and have to download new songs. spotify is just easier in short term for me, tho it does frustrates me that some artists straightup block access to their music in my country
I was almost going to sleep but now I need to download my entire streaming playlists and put it on a 16G usb drive guess I won’t sleep tonight
1:11 listening to SiIvaGunner (it's with a capital i) rips is honestly so epic
I think everyone should have even a small selection of MP3's downloaded in their phone for the off chance that they're somewhere that doesn't have connection.
Reminder that spotify does not pay small artists unless their music gets a certain number of streams
Quality. Super-high quality. Shoutouts to Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.
Jelly on my hotdog I am very high
:P ive been meaning to make or find a script to rip my Spotify playlists!
This video reminded me to do that! Thx
Find me an offline player that can auto-play the way UA-cam music does and I'm sold. Idk what black magic is that, but I'm never going back to just randomly shuffling. And you can even upload your own mp3s for anything that isn't there already, so even that problem is solved.
I had a chance to buy a pretty nice external hard drive that I've been filling with music, movies, shows, even thousands of books in pdf form.
It's literally become a little library and I love being able to do what I want when I want with no ads, and it can't be taken away from me. I can't go back.
Personally I reccomend getting a phone that you have lying around thats still fairly modern but isnt your current phone not on any plans or anything, delete EVERYTHING you can from it, installing an mp3 player app (sometimes they do still come with a music player but usually the third party apps are better), and using that as an mp3 player. Saves space on your real phone but you still have all your offline music.
Oh and if you can, wipe android or AppleOS from it and install a third party lightweight OS that supports mp3 playing if ya can. Good to save as MUCH space as possible for funkadelic groovemania tunes.
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I still use an MP3 player, got a cool one that looks like the Idroid from Metal gear solid, I hate having everything on a phone or an algorithm telling me what to like.
Keep making the wonderful videos, you inspired me to get back into web creation again.
Your OC is adorable!! Also, burning CD-Rs was a HUGE part of my childhood and I'm so happy and excited that kids can get into it too like I did
honestly i love your videos, theyre super relaxing, your artstyle is amazing and as a plus your voice is actually calm and the videos are paced slowly unlike alot of the stuff the algorithm pushes these days! honestly the only reason i havent fully moved over to my files is just the fact that my phone probably can't handle all the shit downloaded on my laptop, and the fact that i love variety in my music probably doesnt help..
also i think we need a bonkumiru vinyl..
I was also thinking that purchasing the audio files individually and being able to download them as many times as you want is a more convenient way to own music. The only problem would be preexisting piracy. I mean, I don't think most people would suddenly start paying for something they've always done for free.
I agree with this video for the most part except for the one about CDs being inconvenient - that's mostly true but ripping them is great because you can have the resulting rip in any quality you want, and plus used ones are pretty cheap at the moment
One thing you can do is get physical media, then digitise it. This is difficult with vinyl, but extremely easy with CDs and cassettes. The audio quality, in the case of CDs, is quite nice, thankfully. Furthermore, many libraries (at least in my region) carry such physical media, so you can borrow the albums from there and digitise it at no cost to you. The libraries here also allow patrons to request purchases, so you can have input on what the library buys---again, at no (additional) cost to you. Obviously they probably won't have titles in your particular niche, but I've found that the ones near me have an abundance of really interesting and obscure titles that I would never have found if I hadn't explored the library's collection.
There's probably open source software to sync music files with your phone and your pc. It's 2024, baby! Perchance. If ya nasty.
I'm glad I'm not the only person left on this barren earth that still buys music and has a music library!
It really really is the best of all worlds, the only shortcoming I feel is discoverability, I still juggle a soundcloud subscription mainly just to find new artists and sometimes even games.
I actually used to keep a MP3 music library, but my problem with it was the discoverability... Spotify is just really good at helping me find new music
0:42 wait, there is a vinyl of the Yume Nikki soundtrack!? I never knew I needed this
I really gotta make myself an MP3 library. I really like the shuffle feature so I would probably try to code a simple program but I would probably have an MP3 library for archive purposes.
2:19 Apple Music has some advantages. It’s just that people on the internet tend to use Spotify which is why it has more culture about it.
HECK YEAH!!! i started downloading mp3s cus i didnt have the money for a spotify subscription and i didnt want to be perpetually connected to the internet to listen to music, and also giving money to youtube or spotify just seemed like a really lame thing to do lol. im used to pirate basically everything since i was a kid so it just seemed like the natural thing to do for me, but i still try to buy particular albums in digital when i want to help the creator. i live in a country where piracy is a lot more commonplace and less legally restricted than in the US, but nowadays i see more and more people who have no idea how to download anything and it makes me a bit sad lol. good video!!!
There's actually apps nowadays that help you automatically sync files between you computer and your phone even across the internet and some of them even have streaming-like ui's and such to make it easier to navigate.
your voice is amazing btw!!!
Few things about this video:
1. Having audio files IS physical media. The physical media is now the hard drive of your computer or your phone.
2. A really good music player is foobar2000, very good!
3. If you're using tools that rip audio from streaming websites like youtube/soundcloud (be aware this is piracy) then your files likely have no tags and a music player will only display a file name. There's a useful program called Mp3Tag that makes it super easy to add tags to your files so they display correctly on music players!
Also I agree with not feeling good about people asking for music to be on spotify.
I want that music on Bandcamp! I can support the artist better that way!
I was gifted an MP3 player at the end of last year and since then, I've been going absolutely wild converting my CDs onto there, and I'm glad to see a bunch of other people doing similar things! I have roughly 400 songs so far, and there are still many more to come.
The music player at 1:00 looks so cool but I can't find it anywhere TwT
This made me dig up an old mp3 player my dad has stored away, and im excited to get started on replacing the battery.
I rlly hope it works, I don't know jack about tech.
I'm not starting from scratch, as I already have a "modern" mp3 player. I just like how big the older one is, alongside its physical buttons.
(I have a Creative Vision M Zen ver. btw if anyone knows anything about it :>)
I have a massive mp3 library ive built up since i was a kid, and recently im building it up again because of a site that has like most video game soundtracks for free, and you can also mass download albums if you contributed back to the site!
I don't listen to songs much, but this sounds pretty interesting, having your own control for music and nobody being abke to take it away sounds very nice for a music enjoyer!
I miss your glados theory. It was only up for a day but it was the best thing on youtube ever
You should check if it was posted onto the internet archive.
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Personally, the 3DS music player is the best music player.
- The 3DS can accept high sd card storage
- The recording/microphone feature can make you sound like razxdflipnote
- The ability to give your music a change of pace/pitch/atmosphere
you can do that with your phone
@@scrambledeggs7202 i havent found a single mp3 player app that can do what a the 3DS music player can do
The main reason why I switched to mp3 is time, like really it takes me about 3hrs to dl around 50 songs but I don't have to listen to ads or go through pop ups or have to search for it ever again. It's really boring to do, but you win in the long run
your soft voice calms me down -w-
i readed homestuck because of you and now everytime i see a disk i think of dave strider and/or cascade thank you
My home server has become my best friend in terms of music, just this last new year we hit over a year of music in time. (as in it would take more than a year to listen to every track in a row.)
I have extreme respect for people who download their music as MP3s as growing up I didn't have internet access at home for most of my life so I had to resort to downloading MP3s. I used to buy empty CDs from the store then burn MP3s I downloaded onto my laptop onto my CDs at school. I did have an MP3 player and a phone at the time but the storage space on both, even combined were BEYOND low (even for mid-late 10s) which is why I preferred having everything physical. I still prefer having MP3s over streaming to this day but I now use both interchangeably, usually depending on the genre.
6:10 one of the biggest reasons i permanently unsubbed from spotify was the fact that Chasing Rainbows by Bring me the Horizon, then took it off permanently, and everyone has asked for it back since and they wont listen.
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me like the aesthetic of his channel. me subscribe
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I do a mix of mp3 and cds. I have an mp3 player so that I can put audiobooks and podcasts on there, as well as music, and I can listen with proper wired headphones. I constantly lose the adapter for my phone. And it saves both space and battery on my phone, so it just makes sense for me. But mp3's aren't the highest quality sometimes, it varies. I like getting flacs when I can from bandcamp and khinsider but those aren't always viable either, if a band isn't on bandcamp or making videogame music. So if there's an album I really really like and want to own it in a nicer quality, I'll buy a cd and listen to it with good headphones or speakers. And using this, I've never really wanted spotify.
open your eyes dawg
0:48 "Gordan, we'd rather have you use spotify instead of CDs so we can save spending on testing"
You can sync your library woth something like Syncthing
I also have my own downloaded music library. I never understood how streaming was supposed to be more convenient than just loading up my phone with all the music I like, and I don't want to have to rely on some outside power to put songs on a service.
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It's so cool to know I'm not the only one doing this. As someone who doesn't have a huge data plan and loves music, it always bothered me that I couldn't listen to music whenever I was out of my house. When I realized I could just download all the music I wanted into my phone it felt like a revelation. I immediately ripped all of the CDs I had into a hard drive and copied it to my phone. Nowadays I'm sitting at around 20GBs of music, enough music that I won't get sick of it for years to come.
I'm an audiophile (not a super big one but I can appreciate good sound), and I stick to Deezer because they're relatively cheap compared to buying an album, while having HIFI audio, not taking up as much space and also easily being able to sync stuff.
I’ve only recently been starting collecting records but I’ve found that I get to enjoy the music much more due to that extra setup time I put into actually getting to listen to it. What makes them more enjoyable is I get to enjoy the album art and all of the packaging in my own physical version
I don’t currently have any mp3 players of my own so I have also been downloading some of my favorite band’s albums onto my 3ds, like the sounds app makes for a really good mp3 player that I have been using a lot to sleep to or just to stay off my phone when I want to be productive but also want something to listen to other than the radio
fun fact a version of calamari inkantation that i really liked got taken off UA-cam buuuut i conveniently have it burned onto a cd. i'm sure there are other videos of that same version but i think it's fun that i have it saved forever
Finally, people are realizing that "digital vs physical" is an obvious false dichotomy. Digital is clearly better, but we need *offline* options
Regarding the syncing. Syncthing was been pretty good. Though, for work? No, constantly keeps on re-adding me previously deleted files, although that could be related to the horrible internet connection I have at school. Should be really good for Music
thank you for this! i wish all of my friends who feel trapped by streaming services could understand...
Technically we COULD use 3D printers to print a car from blueprints. But It'd be cheaper and safer to buy from the manufacturer, I think.
YOu continue to be ungodly based.
1:03 meanwhile me withover 700 songs on my 7gb memory card... Library i was using and expanding for a good decade...
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4:21 Is that POWERAMP???
omg i don't know why i am surprised after you said what you listen to (me too, me too)
i love pirating but i just cant not stream music spotify helps me find SO MANY new music artists and i am constantly listening to new music and other peoples playlists