Ah, I see this detail was also recently noted in the comm 😎 👍

I downloaded Audacity on a friends Windows PC yesterday, and it allowed me to export MP3 without asking for any other steps!

From Audacity’s website:

FAQ:Installing the LAME MP3 Encoder

The software patent on LAME encoding library has expired, so now the LAME library for MP3 export is built-in with Audacity for Windows and Mac. Linux users will still need to download and install the free and recommended LAME third-party encoder to export MP3 files from Audacity.

Linux users should use the following instructions to download and install the free and recommended LAME third-party encoder to export MP3 files with Audacity.

Windows: LAME is now built-in with Audacity for Windows.

Mac: LAME is now built-in with Audacity for Mac.

Linux/Unix: See the LAME installation section on Installing and updating Audacity on Linux.

great post, thank you

Maybe google downranks db0 instance like it does other pirate sites?

Hi JB, I went down this rabbit hole last week, here is a post I made summarizing what I found, with links to the dev’s GH discussions of the different ideas for implementing the linking of communities, both within an instance or across instances, public or private, mod or user created. These features would likely be implemented separately.

There is also a link to a firefox extension that you may find useful while the dev work is ongoing.

See https://lemmy.ml/post/1615183

Thanks for explaining, I like that approach too

P.S. in the meantime, a user has created a FireFox addon that might be useful, I have not checked it out myself.

“Missing the MultiReddit experience? I built a Firefox Add On for that” - @Leraje https://lemmy.ml/post/1611805

Not at all: Not if you avoid purchasing anything involving tipped-services! People who pay their workers so little that they need to be tipped tend not to get my business.

Thanks!

I don’t seem to be able to find the m3u8 in network tab with Firefox, so not sure if thats my fault or if youtube changed something. I’ll think to search for the m3u8 in the network tab next time I encounter a blob elsewhere, though.

I often have trouble trying to get VLC to work with videos on youtube directly, and it didn’t seem to like the blob link from youtube as described by this article, I assume youtube changed something and VLC hasn’t been updated to keep pace.

(Article is from 2021)

So strictly speaking, blobs themselves still cannot be downloaded but it is often possible to find the stream link which will work when a blob is being used.

For anyone who doesn’t know, there’s a Chinese Tencent adaptation (wikipedia) which originally aired January 2023, is not the same as the Netflix adaptation which is not yet released.

The Tencent adaptation is 30 episodes and currently available in full in 1080p in 4K! with english subtitles from Tencent on their yt page:

• Youtube link as shared by misericordiae above https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMX26aiIvX5oCR4bBg2j0W4KKgjYtYBfv
• Invidious link https://y.com.sb/search?q=PLMX26aiIvX5oCR4bBg2j0W4KKgjYtYBfv

I’m about halfway through the Tencent adaptation and I think its accurate to the source material and accurately capturing the mood well, however:

• The buddy cop guy was added for exposition which is lazy writing
• The pacing is really slow which sometimes works really well and other times drags out scenes with no benefit. I’d say this could have been compressed into 22 episodes without losing any content or creating pacing issues while still leaving plenty of time for scenes that were meaningfully slow. Just needs an editor to cut it down a bit. Oh well!

I think I only recommend it if you’re a fan of the book because its not disappointing from that perspective really, but maybe the Netflix version will be comparably faithful while being structured a bit differently or having better storytelling. I look forward to comparing them.