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0 pointsatoav7mo ago0 comments

This isn't about videos I guess. I had parties where guests where demanding songs (every DJs dream) that I obviously didn't had on my drive. That gives you three options currently:

1. Tell them to fuck off, which may or may not work in any given context

2. Play the music in the browser and then hop back to Mixxx in time (dangerous)

3. Downloading the song via 'yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 <URL>', fixing the questionable metadata (optional) and then loading it into Mixxx (cumbersome)

It would be cool if you could just paste the URL into Mixxx, have it cache a local version, render the waveform, store it in a special temp crate or what and then you can play it. But I guess yt-dlp isn't the most stable dependency...

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allenbina7mo ago

from what I've gathered, it's a licensing nightmare. Of course it's better than the current alternative which is piracy, but it's a drop in the bucket with regards to the people who will use it in this specific licensing agreement.

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