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[-] deus@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Yt-dlp. It's basically the only way I download music nowadays.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Someday, when I'm not balls-to-the-wall poor I'll actually support the artists. Until then, it's not illegal for personal use, and morally it's that or just no music.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Speaking of, is there a known way to get around the "sign in" blocking? It's not working anymore.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's fixed in the development versions. If you installed yt-dlp using pip, update with the prerelease flag: pip install --upgrade --pre yt-dlp. If you manually installed it, run yt-dlp --update-to nightly or grab the latest dev from their nightly repo.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah. I'll switch to pip then. I've been using the deb package. Thanks!

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I just updated to the newest Ubuntu LTS, which puts pip into system managed mode so you can't easily install packages outside of a virtual environment anymore.

If you (or anyone who stumbles upon this comment in the future) run into this problem, the new recommended way to install yt-dlp through pip and keep it in your path and up to date is via pipx (sudo apt install pipx). The syntax is a bit gnarly for pre-releases, so I figured I'd post an update:

To install the nightly: pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlp

To update the nightly: pipx upgrade --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlp

I alias the update command and run it before every download session.

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