album-splitter VS youtube-dl

Though they are now in mp3 format, they are still sorted alphabetically and with the file names missing - between artist and song, e.g. Pink FloydAnother brick in the wall (Part 2).mp3 (this issue?)

For music, I exclusively listen to albums on youtube. I use the tool albumsplitter.py which downloads and splits the album into distinct songs, so you can shuffle easily between difference songs in a mp3 player. I then use foobar2k discogs plug-in to add metadata. Im a bit annoyed by this set-up do to how manual it is. I think I can develop a script that does this automatically and access it through the windows drop down menu but i've been bad lazy. I ultimately want to develop a personal report generated from the usage statistics of foobar (or some other music player) to figure out what albums / songs ive liked, listen to, how extensive, what genres, forecast etc.

Notes: I'm not using vpns. I'm using a special version of ytdl designed for niconico. It has not been updated in over a year: https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl

You might get more consistent results with a fork, most of which have already fixed this issue. Some popular ones are yt-dlp/yt-dlp, blackjack4494/youtube-dlc and animelover1984/youtube-dl. Please note though these might not be drop-in replacements

Months before the lawsuit, there were plenty of people complaining that youtube-dl's maintainers closed issues without any reason given. Here is one illuminating example:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23860

And there is also an entire fork that fixes the support for just a single provider, Niconico, because the maintainers ignored its issues.

https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl

A quote from its README:

All code in this project is licensed solely with the condition that any portion of it is not permitted to be used in the main youtube-dl fork, either directly or indirectly. It is also not permitted to be used in any project that contains contributions from either remitamine or dstftw.

It seems that youtube-dl was a dysfunctionally managed project at the time of the lawsuit, and happened to ride out on the good PR for a couple of months, before returning to stagnation once again.

To me it sounds like a plugin system would have prevented centralization and the need for forks, but would have made distribution harder for average users.

It does, I wrote the tool. I started https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl to add features for Horahora.

animelover1984's fork have a unique niconico extractor, supports livestreams

In addition to animelover1984/youtube-dl, non-live videos work with yt-dlp as well

Hello. I'm currently trying to download some Niconico videos that will be deleted at the end of this month, using this fork of youtube-dl. However, when I try to run a command, I get this error:

Bilibili doesn't have playlists afaik. Do you mean channels/anthologies? If so, both animelover1984/youtube-dl and yt-dlp can download them

Other than animelover1984/youtube-dl, yt-dlp also works

Also, if you already have git installed, the easiest way is py -m pip install git+https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl