Kamil Cholewiński <harry6...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote:
> > When mentioning souldcloud, I usually refer to the "sound editing" feature.
> 
> As a person that does most of his music making in plain old analog
> (including a tape recorder), I miss the point of having a web service
> doing audio stuff, i.e. what can SC do in the browser that I couldn't do
> with a desktop app?
> 
> > For youtube, we agree 100%, but it seems that the javascript/modern web 
> > engine
> > combo is used as a kind of DRM... namely the dependency by complexity is _on
> > purpose_ (see the user agreement of youtube: you MUST use the 
> > javascript/modern
> > web engine video player. [...]
> 
> In principle, in practice youtube-dl[1] still works pretty well ;)
> However not without labor on the part of the developer.
> I suspect there will be a way, as long as YT allows watching videos
> without logging in - which would get a lot of people upset.
> 
> [1]: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

youtube-dl is quite fat, I prefer you-get which is simpler and smaller.

https://you-get.org/

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