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Backing up Battlegrounds

Unread postby Beakman » 31 Oct 2021 20:58

I looked for utilities to help icy to back up the soundtrack for Battlegrounds from YouTube [ > ] and I found this command-line tool that can download entire playlists at once:

https://youtube-dl.org

Under Windows, I installed it using the Chocolatey package manager. Install that first from here: https://chocolatey.org/install#individual

Then run Chocolatey using the command explained here: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/youtube-dl

And that will install the download tool.

To download a video playlist in the native format and highest quality as provided by YouTube, just run:

youtube-dl [playlist URL]

For instance, to download the entire Battlegrounds stream playlist I opened Powershell and ran:

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youtube-dl https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAo0unmSSGSC_C_gVZBHU11PWcT9Qpixx
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Unread postby icycalm » 31 Oct 2021 21:42

It's not really about backing up the soundtrack, though that is helpful too. It's about backing up our videos of the sessions from this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... PWcT9Qpixx

The soundtrack videos won't be lost, because lots of people have them. But no one has our sessions, and if YT decides to take them down due to the copyrighted music we're playing, they're gone. So it's paramount to keep them backed up. I asked Beak to do a quick backup right now, and I'll be doing one too later this week or early next week when I set up my new laptop and 5 TB external hard drive I bought. But the more people back this stuff up, the better, hence this thread.

I am not 100% sure I understand Beak's instructions, but I'll give it a go and report back if I have issues. Feel free to ask questions if you're trying to get this done too.


P.S. I am moving this thread to the Battlegrounds forum.
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