to the person who sent an ask requesting a gif tutorial: i'm planning on it! i just need to test whether the recorder i use comes packaged with ffmpeg on newer installs/works on lower refresh rate monitors
i figure someone around here knows this so i’m gonna ask—
YouTube is glitchy asf & i want to escape Google suite, but i want some videos (covers & whatnot) that i can’t get elsewhere as MP3/MP4 files that i can use on my phone &/or MP3 player.
(i searched for them first on other platforms, but they’re exclusive unfortunately.)
¿does anyone here know a site that actually works/gives functional MP3/MP4 files that isn’t (a) gonna steal data, (b) doesn’t have viruses, (c) doesn’t stop the download with ads & refuse the file to give it to me, & (d) hopefully (i’ll accept if not but) also lets me cut/trim parts of videos (to remove the ‘join my patreon’ spiel or the extra music and whatnot at the beginning or end of a video (that YT has often))?
i’m very new to the ‘i really don’t want to support the platform/creator, but i know i want to have the content somehow, and i know there are alternative file methods to access these’ (gathering content from creators that I love & want to support but can’t get elsewhere) scene. i don’t have the resources or knowledge of the existing options, and a quick search on any platform (Google of course, but also Bing & DuckDuckGo) isn’t giving me anything that works.
so many people post about free books & whatnot, so i figure this is a reasonable place to reach out. please let me know if you have some ideas. of course, for extremely legal purposes.