YouTube

Archiving Music via youtube-dl

NOTE: Since I’m really slow at typing things up, the entire youtube-dl DMCA incident happened somewhere in the middle of this post.

Intro

Ok, let me set the stage.

There’s this song that I’ve been listening to for a week straight and I want to buy it so I have a local copy (yes, I buy music).

I go to Bandcamp / Amazon Music / Patreon and find out that it isn’t listed.