Category: linux

So, you’re downloading a video. Or a list of videos, let’s make it interesting. You’ve got everything set up, you fire up yt-dlp and set it to download. And all of a sudden, you start getting filename errors. Can’t write file, invalid filename. Turns out yt-dlp is trying to set the filename from the video’s…

Poweramp is my go to app for listening to audio files on my phone! It’s got features galore, equalizer and playlist support. But when it comes to playlists, things can get a bit wonky. Traditionally what I do for my playlists is create them on my PC using a player like VLC that can save…

No matter how fast my internet connection gets, I still feel the need from time to time to download videos from Youtube (and other online sources like Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, etc). Sometimes it’s a matter of needing to save an important video snippet for a presentation, or keeping a local copy of a long video…