Hello. 1st time caller, long time lurker. If I wanted to get a bunch of music videos for a theme party (in this case goth 80s) what would be the best source? Are there like mtv torrents by year or anything to make the collecting less tedious?
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I tend to rip music videos from youtube with yt1s.com
It’s manual and tedious, but works. I’d like a solution like the arrs, but I also don’t keep many music videos so 🤷
If you can find a playlist of videos you can download whole lists with ytdlp.
I’ve heard of ytdlp many times, but I rip so little from youtube I just haven’t had the need to look into it.
YouTube tends to be one of my last resorts for media sources.
metube works well too and can be selfhosted.
I was doing something like this, using FakeTV and Plex/Jellyfin, and uh, sadly, the answer I came up with was that no, there’s not.
I ended up combining a number of private torrents, usenet downloads, and a LOT of YouTube downloads into a Fake-MTV stream.
The good news, at least, is that if you’re wanting anything remotely interesting to more than 3 people ever, someone has put the music videos on YouTube and thus those are easy to find. The channel announcements and news segments and other stuff that made MTV actually MTV was a lot harder, lol.
Ok, I can work with harvesting YT but what do you use to do it? There are multiple websites that CLAIM to do this but they all are sketch.
yt-dlp is my go to. It’s the open source project most other things use behind the scenes
ytDownloader, assuming it still works.
You have to find the links by hand, but wasn’t really that bad for what I was doing, since I really only needed to snag about 50 videos or so to make the playlist rotation work out right.
Find a playlist of the music videos you want, use jdownloader to download the entire playlist.
The channel announcements and news segments and other stuff that made MTV actually MTV was a lot harder, lol.
Did you look at the internet archive?
Yeah, there is/was like a 1tb archive of various recordings that I used to fish out bits and pieces from.
…I then noticed that the quality was awful on a lot of that because it’s almost certainly coming off 20 year old VHS tapes and being recorded in some combination of resolution and bitrate that could at best be considered ‘low’ and fell down the “AI” upscaling rabbit hole.
In case anyone wasn’t aware, you can do a shocking amount of amazing upscaling shit for the low low investment of a GPU and a ton of power. (I used QualityScaler)
Commenting so I don’t lose this post, because I’m curious too.
As a goth, I’m jealous of your party!
Wouldn’t be an 80s goth party without Fields of the Nephilim and Sisters of Mercy
I have a collection of music videos organized by artist. I have absolutely no idea where I got them from… I forget how I did it and it kills me. I wish I could remember how I set it up - they seem to be better quality than YouTube and only recently got into ytdlp.
If I remember then I’ll post it on here.
I used this. https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader-PRO. Might’ve been what you used, it’s better quality then YouTube. IDK if the tool still works or not, hasn’t been updated since 2022.
I would just find a bunch of bands and gather a lot of videos, then put it on shuffle. You can probably find playlists and then find the corresponding music videos too, if you don’t want just a lot of songs from a few bands.
I have a few downloaded from YouTube, but I don’t have a good way of playing them. Jellyfin stops after each one. I want a playlist shuffling between them.
I was just going to use vlc?
I have a projector and play video Playlists off Tidal for parties. Really excels at video Playlists including smart Playlists you don’t need to manually curate. I’ve been a subscriber for awhile, but imagine there is at least some access to this with free accounts.
