WACUP

General => Wishlist / Feature Requests => Topic started by: fieldtrip on August 04, 2024, 01:31:03 AM

Title: a internal downloader
Post by: fieldtrip on August 04, 2024, 01:31:03 AM
Not sure if this is possible or if anyone has talked about it, but a internal downloader where you can paste a link or just have a little search thing that allows you to search than download the song. Again not sure if it is possible or already integrated into the app as i have just downloaded it today and just started getting used to it transferring from using winamp for 2 years and having to deal with downloading from sketchy websites. sorry if this does seem stupid or anything else thank you
Title: Re: a internal downloader
Post by: Aminifu on August 04, 2024, 08:22:55 AM
Downloading a song without paying for it is stealing. Search google for many ways to download songs with and without paying for them. For example, there are sites that let you paste a link to a you-tube video that will extract the audio from the video into a downloadable mp3 file. You get the song and the artist (others involved) who performed gets nothing. There are also sites where you can download songs for a reasonable fee and the artists (and others involved) get paid.
Title: Re: a internal downloader
Post by: Eris Lund on August 04, 2024, 04:23:23 PM
One could argue the YouTube feature in WACUP could also count as stealing, since the yt-dlp component downloads the video and plays it back (or only the audio if so desired) through WACUP (and from there you can then just rip the whole thing with the Nullsoft Disk Writer plugin).
IMO it's a grey area.
Frankly if you really want to support the artist, then the best way of doing it is by buying their CDs/digital copies.
Title: Re: a internal downloader
Post by: dro on August 04, 2024, 09:25:20 PM
yt-dlp is not used to download the videos as I've detailed numerous times now - it's just there to obtain an appropriate http based url that can then be played via the rest of wacup which is how streaming playback works for anything out there whether it's got a fancy name on the tech nor not.

-dro
Title: Re: a internal downloader
Post by: Aminifu on August 07, 2024, 02:12:25 AM
Hi dro,

I thought the Nullsoft Disk Writer plug_in only works with local files (converting formats and saving the result). Does it also allow saving streams WACUP is playing?
Title: Re: a internal downloader
Post by: dro on August 07, 2024, 09:30:37 AM
It depends on what the input plug-in(s) are reporting in relation to trying to use that output plug-in though it's already earmarked for removal.

-dro