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dylan604yesterday at 6:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why would someone that writes their own songs, mixes in GarageBand, uploads to a 3rd party website need to use yt-dlp to get back the files that they themselves made?

Yes, I'm intentionally victim blaming here. The victim is complaining about a 3rd party site deleting files. Who cares? Why would you have as your only source of your files the copies stored by the 3rd party?


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crazybonkersaiyesterday at 8:50 PM

You get a point there, but export is mostly about metadata, eg images and description.

Data loss happens too. Soundcloud may be your only source of your own tracks.

direwolf20yesterday at 7:20 PM

Not only that, the victim is complaining about a paid file storage company deleting the files when the victim stops paying