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Ask HN: Anyone interested in a tool like this?

1 pointsby JSLegendDevabout 1 year ago
So I got the idea to make a desktop app or command line app that allows you to merge multiple YouTube videos into a single long one with ytdl + ffmpeg.<p>I can think of two use cases where this could be useful.<p>1) You want to put something on your TV. You would use my tool to create a long stream of curated YouTube videos and then you would put it on your TV to playback. Like making your own TV program.<p>2) If you&#x27;re a parent and want absolute control on what your children are exposed to on YouTube. You create a single long video which contains the videos they want to watch and nothing else and then you give it to them.<p>Are any of these use cases realistic? Any parents who would find this useful.<p>I personally don&#x27;t need something like this but the idea just came to me. It might be worth building.

4 comments

sanjayv2about 1 year ago
Doesn&#x27;t YouTube have a playlist feature just for these use cases?
JojoFatsaniabout 1 year ago
If I wanted to watch multiple YouTube videos I’d make a playlist probably.<p>I don’t have bandwidth caps with my provider luckily so the download and encode steps are not valuable to me.
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PaulHouleabout 1 year ago
The one I want is something that can find all the songs in an album from YouTube, download them, extract the soundtrack, and put on good metadata for the tracks.
warrenmabout 1 year ago
the first case sounds like the YouTube &quot;playlist&quot; feature<p>skipping around in a &quot;single long video&quot; would be an RPITA!