On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, sylvain.bertrand_AT_gmail.com wrote:
> When mentioning souldcloud, I usually refer to the "sound editing" feature.
As a person that does most of his music making in plain old analog
(including a tape recorder), I miss the point of having a web service
doing audio stuff, i.e. what can SC do in the browser that I couldn't do
with a desktop app?
> For youtube, we agree 100%, but it seems that the javascript/modern web engine
> combo is used as a kind of DRM... namely the dependency by complexity is _on
> purpose_ (see the user agreement of youtube: you MUST use the javascript/modern
> web engine video player. [...]
In principle, in practice youtube-dl[1] still works pretty well ;)
However not without labor on the part of the developer.
I suspect there will be a way, as long as YT allows watching videos
without logging in - which would get a lot of people upset.
[1]:
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Received on Tue Jun 13 2017 - 13:36:47 CEST