Added a couple of posts

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+title: "Download Your Stuff From Google"
+date: 2020-09-14T21:10:28Z
+draft: false
+tags: [blog,google,download,your,stuff]
+---
+
+Let's say [Google music](https://play.google.com/music) it's going to be dismissed in favour of [Youtube music](https://www.youtube.com/music) as a subscription service.
+
+Let's say you hate subscription services and you want to download the music you bought, like 1€ and change every song.
+
+Pretty easy, just click a thousand times on every album you bought on the application or the web page (it looks like it's the same thing) and get a nice 404 error.
+
+Fuck that :D
+
+Actually it looks like there's another way to get what's yours and download it.
+
+I didn't know about it, it's called [Google takeout](https://takeout.google.com/takeout/downloads).
+Just go there and select what to download.
+
+I started downloading my music library just now.
+I'll keep you posted on how much time it'll take and eventual problems with the process.
+
+Just wanted to share this with everyone, expecially cause it's google policy to just kill stuff after a while.
+

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+title: "Google Takeout Results"
+date: 2020-09-16T16:33:34Z
+draft: false
+tags: [blog]
+---
+
+As from the [last post](https://blog.scompo.it/posts/download-your-stuff-from-google) I suggested using
+[Google takeout](https://takeout.google.com/takeout/downloads) to download a user's play music collection
+from their cloud.
+
+It actually took a few hours for a ~8 Gb music library.
+
+I received an email containing 4 links valid for 7 days to 4 different zip archives containing at most 2Gb
+of data as specified in the request.
+
+This time the links worked fine, no 404 errors downloading.
+With my _bad_ internet it took like 4 hours to download them.
+
+I downloaded 2 files at a time, with each one going at like 300 kb/s of average speed.
+Not that bad considering I'm in the middle of nothing and the connection is shared with the rest of my family.
+
+I suspect that with a better connection the downloads would have gone much faster because it had no problems
+speeding up sometimes when more bandwidth was available to me.
+
+Some more technical stuff about the whole thing:
+
+Each zip file is called `takeout-YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ-001.zip` and contains the following hierarchy of folders:
+
+    .
+    └── Takeout
+        └── Google Play Music
+            ├── Playlist
+            ├── Stazioni radio
+            └── Tracce
+
+I guess it would change with your language, that's Italian.
+
+So a main folder called `Takeout`.
+A subfolder for the service, mine's `Google play music`.
+Then folders based on the service layout I guess.
+
+`Tracce` is the Italian word for Tracks, `Stazioni radio` means radio station.
+Inside each folder there are a lot of `csv` files containing metadata about the songs, name, author, number of times it has been played, etc.
+
+In the tracks directory, other than all the metadata already mentioned, there are also the tracks in `.mp3` format, 320 kb/s bit rate, 44100Hz samples.
+
+All the tracks are at the same level, not organized by author/record but at least they all have ID tags inside, complete with album cover.
+It's just a matter of time to sort them out and put them in order, if you care about having your music organized in your folders too.
+
+The track names are in the `author-record-track.mp3` file name format with a weird 48 characters limit before the extension.
+
+Yeah in the end it worked, I've seen that the backup process could be planned and automated for the various services.
+It's interesting to take a look for sure.
+