Google Cracks Down on YouTube-to-MP3-Ripping Sites

http://www.pcworld.com/article/257890/google_cracks_down_on_youtubetomp3ripping_sites.html

by anujkk • 14 years ago

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antihero2• 14 years ago

Who on earth would want some sort of horrible transcode of a transcode?

fleitz3• 14 years ago

The same sort of people who would watch 240p video.

jps359• 14 years ago

You'd be surprised how many technology-illiterate people do these things.

snookca• 14 years ago

I admittedly have used these services to procure obscure tracks that aren't available via iTunes or other means. That band who did an a cappella cover? No download link on their site or anywhere else? Youtube to mp3.

antihero2• 14 years ago

In that case, it looks like the industry could much better fix the problem by providing legitimate means to get these tracks :)

loudmax• 14 years ago

Yes, the audio quality of mp3s is much lower than a CD. This format will never catch on.

duaneb• 14 years ago

I don't know about transcodes, but there are often live recordings or rare recordings that I can only find on youtube.

Splines• 14 years ago

If you grab the source video yourself you can demux the audio using ffmpeg (I've done this for some live performances that I wanted to listen to offline).

slig• 14 years ago

People that can't tell the diference between DVD quality and HD. People that listen to music using their crappy cellphone speaker.

dpritchett2• 14 years ago

I used one to make a ringtone from a crowd reaction in a video gaming tournament video.

lovskogen2• 14 years ago

Street Fighter 2? :)

fleitz3• 14 years ago

The only thing this can do is increase the quality of MP3s on the internet.

The audio is as heavily compressed as the video, not much point in ripping that.

technoslut• 14 years ago

>The audio is as heavily compressed as the video, not much point in ripping that.

Kids don't care about the quality otherwise they wouldn't be taking this avenue in the first place.

I can't help but think a service like Vevo is playing a big role in this along with the RIAA. Music videos are consistently the most watched videos on YouTube and Vevo has been making a big stink about leaving YouTube.

eli• 14 years ago

You never taped a song off the radio?

fleitz3• 14 years ago

Yeah, but that was before '94 when I installed my first MP3 player, since then not too much. Mostly CD rips and downloads, I don't think I ripped anything after about '98.

joshbaptiste• 14 years ago

shrug.. youtube-dl + ffmpeg.

ngokevin• 14 years ago

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 -l LINK

drcube• 14 years ago

Can you still just copy and paste from your /tmp folder in Ubuntu? I can't do that on Arch, so I just use the FlashGot Firefox addon.

gsa• 14 years ago

Not anymore, a Flash upgrade broke that sometime ago.

Toshio• 14 years ago

I use the following script on Arch to do what you're looking to do: http://pastebin.com/9si8EdFQ

naner• 14 years ago

Quite awhile ago Flash started "deleting" the file in /tmp as soon as it got the file handle. You can still get the file handle using 'lsof' while the video is playing. It would be easier to just use a tool like youtube-dl or clive (or a browser extension) to grab the videos, though.

user49598• 14 years ago

Anyone notice that these are no longer being taken down: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=full+album

There are a lot of full albums on you tube now, many with track markers in the description.

xgMz• 14 years ago

I wonder if Google has a practical way to stopping them, reading from the article saying they've blocked the sites (by IP? ... so they'll use TOR?); I guess blocking is the best they can do aside from legal action (if that even works overseas)?

Google Cracks Down on YouTube-to-MP3-Ripping Sites

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