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VLC can convert direct to disk, using the "media->convert/save" option directly from the app menu.
Problem here however is one of automation.
That said, VLC does have an automation interface (I can't remember exactly how, it's been years since I did anything with it) but I remember once a very long time ago writing a .NET front end (Winforms app) which when put on a server could be used to save the currently playing iFrame under an ASP.NET web page to disk.
VLC does also have a stand alone library file of all it's main functions, it's documented on the VLC site I think, and there are certainly a few .NET libs on NuGet to interface to it.
If you just want an app that can rip anything your currently looking at/listening too on your desktop, then OBS Studio will do the job easily and quickly.
I have my OBS set up with a number of different scenes, one of which is full screen desktop + desktop audio, so all I need to do is start OBS, click a single line of text then press record.
failing that, if your ok with batch scripting and have a txt file with all the URL's in, then you can use the command line to itterate through the text file, and pass each URL in turn to a tool like yt-dlp.
This will work on windows, linux and mac, and if you use the '-f' or '-F' flag (Can't remember which) it will list all the available formats for the mentioned URL for you, you can then use the other '-f/F' with the format number and yt-dlp will ONLY pull down that format EG: audio.
By using the -F/f flags you won't need to do any post conversion on the file, you can simply just for loop over a text file, yt-dlp each url with the appropriate format and end up with a nice clean folder of MP3's/Wavs etc.
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trønderen wrote: Place a microphone in front of the PC speakers, and digitize that
Hmmm, I remember doing that when ripping vinyl onto reel-to-reel tape. The sound may have been a little crappy but that crappiness was nothing compared to tape wow, flutter, hiss, oxide shedding, and the poor playback system(s).
But there were some secrets revealed that in that recording method that might otherwise go unnoticed. Take, for instance, Steve Miller Band's album Number 5, side one. The last song is Tokin's and the final verses of the song repeat "And in a little while I know it's gonna change." Nothing to that, right? But when you listen to the tape the song ends and then you can hear the record changer look for the next record in the stack.
Dang! My '58 Renault Dauphine has another flat tire.
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This is something I wouldn't ever trust to automation. That being said, I'd do this in hardware. I used to be a tape-recorder-nut and did work with tape recorders of various formats, and I would first suggest using a common cassette recorder, except they are no longer 'common'. Likewise, a VCR can be utilized to make audio-only recordings of up to 8 hours long, just use the VCR's line-in jacks and 'ignore' the video. Of course, VCR's are no longer common either. Maybe one of those handheld voice recorders can accept a patchcord? The other thing is to attach a second computer, use the capture audio on the line-in of second computer. Use a free recording program such as Audology.
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I use multiple hardware systems with multiple VMs on them. It would be extremely useful to me for a tool that would allow me to login across all machines and share cut/paste information. Now, here's the caveat - I am not creating or logging in to a Microsoft account to allow me to do this. The MS ecosystem is such a disaster at this point, I don't want to bother. I'll throw apple under the same bus.
I'll keep searching. I don't know, maybe there is a website out there that does something like this?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Boxes under Ubuntu. Cut'n'paste between native and VM windows, no sweat.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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will look into it. ty
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Windows Server does that even between different users...
We found that out on the hard way, when working remote in our indian plant.
M.D.V. 
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Interesting. I know I can do it if I have all of my "machines" logged in. I am not interested in binding my systems to Microsoft period. I get enough login requests from them as it is.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I don't do this very often, but one tool I have running anyway on multiple desktops is Discord, and I have used it to share items between desktops. Just that there's an annoying bar on the Windows 7 desktops these days urging me to upgrade to Windows 10 or newer.
Another tool that works for me is Dropbox.
These are really both overkill for just sharing across my LAN, but the only other thing would be to write my own app to do this, then I wouldn't have to worry about content, size, and volume restrictions.
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hmmmm ty for the info...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My rule of thumb is that the best application or device is the one you don't realise you're using. We use things generally to get something else done, and not for the "using" itself (though obviously there are exceptions to this).
I'm finding, however, that software is becoming louder and more aggressive in its "look at me! Aren't I doing awesome??" way of being.
This whole trend was started with antivirus software which used to pop up every 15 mins to tell you how safe you are, and how scary the world would be if you didn't keep paying their subscription. Then Windows Defender came along and quietly destroyed that market and did the world a favour. It just sat there, doing its job, and letting you do yours.
But now it seems every time I open an app there's a splash screen for its new point release, or a modal dialog pointing out the new shade of turquoise in the toolbar, or a tour walk-through of a feature that you could care less about. More and more and more.
I'm wondering if this is because
- The economic climate is rough and so everyone is clamouring over everyone else for market share. As products get louder other products get louder and so others get louder. GOTO 10.
- We're all market fatigued so to get our TikTok-numbed attention you have to shout
- It's a marketing trend that everyone follows because everyone else is doing it, with no actual evidence it helps, and even if it does help, it's being done wrong by devs who don't actually understand what they should be doing. See also: cookie warnings.
- I'm old and crotchety and need to lighten up and understand software has insecurities too. It's just a phase.
I have another rant about advertising in Operating System (Hi, Microsoft) that I'll save till the chocolate kicks in properly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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And this is just the beginning.
As AI becomes more prevalent the first to make full use of it, after DOD of course is the marketing crowd.
If you've ever been to one of those streets where the hawkers are in front of their place of business with the pitch to draw you in; hey buddy we got the coldest beer in town (not really what they're pitching but I'm being KSS) then you will understand what's coming.
Every time you pass a store you're phone will go crazy with the; hey buddy we got the coldest beer in town...
The marketers will research new ways to use AI to gain access to your wallet, to confirm take you deserve that cold beer.
Market fatigue?, Market Burnout!
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Chris Maunder wrote: The economic climate is rough
Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Peeps in power want to stay in power, so they'll tell you one thing (there's no recession) while actually doing another. Even Google is terrible with this now. I get ads in my Gmail... that I pay for. It's Google's own crap, so apparently that's cool...
If we don't resist it, and when the economy eventually turns around, it's not like tech companies will magically stop it either. As long as users let them get away with it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I get ads in my Gmail...
Wow! I've never seen a single ad in Gmail - and I only use the free version. Admittedly, I get less than 5 messages a week so I'm probably not ad worthy.
/ravi
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Yeah, it's for new Google "features"... come try this and that. It's not always free stuff either. It's in bad taste IMO.
Jeremy Falcon
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Chris Maunder wrote: The economic climate is rough and so everyone is clamouring over everyone else for market share. As products get louder other products get louder and so others get louder. GOTO 10.
And it might get worse[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The world is becoming too noisy mostly due to software, especially mobile apps with their constant notifications (turned on by default?) and update nagging, not to mention the mobile devices that also provide their own share of notifications/nags.
The noise extends to other system as well such as desktop. The OS and most apps on it are checking their versions against the mothership too keep you up to date and secure...still you get notifications about tons of unimportant stuff. A good example is SSMS, which I have now on 3 different development systems and multiple servers. If I had a dollar for every update notification from SSMS I've seen, I could retire. Shame on me for not worrying too much about a tool that rarely gets any fixes/enhancements. (Query Designer still can't remember a layout between views, a feature that even Access has had for over 20 years) Visual Studio also nags for updates, but not as much.
Dealing with cell-phone calls, zoom meetings, and update nags during working hours, it's nice to get home and unwind...turn on the TV only to be informed that an update is available, though usually if you can find the remote fast enough you can skip...until the next time.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Using Win11 at work, and they have a "software center" that notifies me at least four times per day when it's installing new software, wants to install new software, or has detected new software somewhere within 5AU of earth.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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I think the trend started more with having training built into the program. Instead of a separate manual, which nobody reads, the program should be "intuitive". However, "intuitive" is very subjective. With standard UI rules being expandedbroken (FIFY) by mobile, sometimes people needed a little help to learn how to use the program. Having a quick 30 second tour of how to use a program could make the difference between someone immediately uninstalling it because they can't figure out how to use it and having a happy customer.
That then grew into "look - a new feature" because if the user doesn't know it's there, then it will never get used. People are creatures of habit. If I never go to that particular menu, then I won't know that a new menu item is there.
They teach this in software UI/UX classes at college.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Besides the fact that it is a emotionally charged contemporary classical piece of music.
I think that someone has a sense of humor as this is Sweden's First Contact with NATO, picking the main theme to Star Trek First Contact seems apropos. 
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That poor guy getting sopping wet holding the flag... Nobody was civilized enough to share an umbrella?
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I learned something today: Bracketed-paste
I'm spending more and more (most, actually) of my time these days in macOS, Ubuntu and Debian, and that ^[200~ appended to the text I paste into terminals has been driving me nuts (though I'm loving Ubuntu - which is not what I expected).
Is it just me or is bracketed paste an attempt to fix a small inconvenience for a few by means of adding a major inconvenience for the many?
Anyone else learned something trivial and bizarre this week?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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