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I’ve actually used this one for quite a nifty Python script:

Invoke a Workflow from a YouTube video on my iPhone -> Dropbox file gets appended with all the details of video -> Hazel is watching this file and triggers the Python script -> which converts the video to MP3, slaps on relevant tags and cover-art and uploads it to my iCloud Music Library [1].

So I can have an MP3 song on my iPhone minutes after I’ve watched the video on YouTube.

[1] I do have Apple Music & Spotify [2], this is primarily for live/rare versions, and piano covers that I like.

[2] need both for testing, “officialy” launching https://www.musicbutler.io soon. /shamelessplug

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Youtube-dl can convert to mp3 and add cover-art from the Youtube thumbnail, not real cover-art, but in most cases that is fine:

$ youtube-dl --extract-audio --add-metadata --xattrs --embed-thumbnail --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 URL

These two comments sum up the entire progression of my development career to date.

A lot of anime/game music is not on any streaming service; so youtube-dl is the only option.

There are tons of anime music torrents out there, and even groups that let you xdcc download from IRC

Yep. I would rather and do pay for music. As said I use this predominantly for obscure stuff.

It's especially bad with games because music gets updated and changed all the time. Official soundtracks often leave tracks out, take for example Civilization V which has an official soundtrack with like 30 tracks, when the game itself has more like 300. It's up to avid players of the game to compile and document the full collection.

Game developers by and large don't give a shit if the musician's work is preserved. If they don't make an effort then as far as I'm concerned they're forfeiting their right to take issue with the morality of downloading their game's music.

> Game developers by and large don't give a shit if the musician's work is preserved. If they don't make an effort then as far as I'm concerned they're forfeiting their right to take issue with the morality of downloading their game's music.

That's a very slanted view of the situation. The game developers may not have rights to distribute all of the music as a soundtrack (they would have to have rights to distribute in the context of the game).

In that case there's still noone losing out on potential sales. I don't see why we should lose out on art being preserved just because rights issues prevent it from being made available commercially.

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