• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Youtube itself has a download button I thought. I haven’t tried it since you have to be logged in to use it.

    I remember that concert venues used to go absolutely berserk about people recording concerts, whether by video or audio. The Grateful Dead were a well known exception since they allowed audio recording, but they still prohibited video recording. There was a famous movie “Diva” about a guy who snuck a portable Nagra reel-to-reel audio tape recorder into opera performances to get bootleg recordings of a famous opera singer.

    Today though, there are fancam vids of every concert uploaded to youtube immediately after the concert, or even livestreams during it. IDK what changed but I doubt it’s damaging the concert industry. Ticketmaster on the other hand is destroying the industry.

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        11 days ago

        Good point about the annoying screens. I watch the videos sometimes but given that they’re allowed, the bands themselves might as well post them.

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      10 days ago

      it downloads to the app’s internal storage for offline viewing, not a file you can backup (though root might allow that)

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        10 days ago

        Interesting. I was pretty sure I had seen that in the desktop web client. I don’t use the mobile app. Oh well, shrug, thanks.

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        11 days ago

        It does have a download button in the Android app, but tapping it tells you to get YouTube Premium.

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            11 days ago

            Oh, I’m not asking how to download videos. I use Seal. I’m just pointing out that what OP said is true. There is a download button in the native YouTube app. (And, for the record, I don’t need an alternate YouTube app, either. I already have an alternate.)

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        11 days ago

        I don’t have any extension like that. There’s a button. Idk what it does though.

        Added: maybe I’m confused, I see a “Save” button now but I had remembered “download”. Perhaps I equated the terms.