There is a free and open source Android app called seal which is a GUI wrapper for yt-dlp (command line YouTube download tool). It is not on Google Play so you will have to install it via F-Droid or APK file installation, which may require you jump through some hoops like enabling Developer Mode on your device as a first-time setup. (Oh, just noticed you mentioned NewPipe so you are probably across this, but maybe still worth mentioning for anyone else reading.)
You can paste in a link to a YouTube playlist and it will download all the videos for you. You can specify audio-only downloads, but when I tried it just now, MP3 file format wasnāt an option specifically, only OPUS and M4A.
thanks! it seems to be just what im looking for. it even has a little additional option to convert m4a files to mp3, though at some cost of quality (which, tbh, if i cared that much about quality i dont think id be listening to music through youtube)
Iāve seen discussion of yt-dlp downloaders of multiple videos/playlists that YouTube has been known to ban IPs or accounts found downloading lots of videos that way, so use such things with caution, perhaps.
apparently i downloaded this very good dungeonsynthy song (02. Garrison) to my phone six months ago but the music app i tried couldnāt identify it, anyone know what this is from? iā¦ assume a videogame
Interesting non-fiction books or magazines about games?
Iāve been especially interested in Auto-biographies written by people who worked on them like the
The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development
Sid Meierās Memoir!
My pie in the sky wish would be to ideally find a book or set of articles written about the early indie scene pre-indie boom.
Romeroās autobiography is a breezy read. Derek Yuās Spelunky book fits your description & I read it but honestly couldnāt tell you a thing about it beyond remembering it feeling very blog post-y (neutral descriptor).
Thereās Richard Garriottās āExplore/Createā, which I imagine is interesting but unfortunately cursed with an Elon Musk pull quote. Ralph Baerās āVideogames in The Beginningā seems (from reviews) idiosyncratic, described as a mixture of raging at Nolan Bushnell, historical narrative, grousing over patents, bragging, and technical documents.
Kojima has an autographical essay book, āThe Creative Geneā, although the github repo with translated MGS2 Dev Diary gotta be a more honest read. Jordan Mechnerās books on Karateka and Prince of Persia seem good (but maybe Digital Eclipseās version is better for Karateka ?). Cliff Bleszinski has a bookā¦ i guessā¦ āControl Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Gamesā
Two books Iām interested in after looking into this: āCreating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Gamesā by Warren Davis,
āImagine That! The story of one of the first African Americans to work in the design of video games and personal computersā by Edward L Smith.
If you are referring to all the running around on the ceiling inside a spaceship stuff, thatās the reason Iāve been waiting ages for this game:
Similar mechanics with more of a quake aesthetic which appeals more to my sensibilities. (Iām hopeful that the stilted voiceover is only in the trailer)
Days later on this, but yes, they are great. Iāve almost finished the PSP one and it rules (gets so dickish at the end) and the second game is nuts. The fight against the Kraken in 2 is both a high and low point, but itās hilarious either way.
i donāt think theyāre essential, but if youāre going in, the first two psx games are still worth looking at and take no time to finish. cool to see how fully formed it was from the start.