From 6009b23156bac3686b8cd04f76283fba7e9cffa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Scomparin Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 14:40:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a couple of posts --- .../posts/download-your-stuff-from-google.md | 25 +++++++++ content/posts/google-takeout-results.md | 55 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/download-your-stuff-from-google.md create mode 100644 content/posts/google-takeout-results.md diff --git a/content/posts/download-your-stuff-from-google.md b/content/posts/download-your-stuff-from-google.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a444bf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/download-your-stuff-from-google.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +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. + diff --git a/content/posts/google-takeout-results.md b/content/posts/google-takeout-results.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b717b3a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/google-takeout-results.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +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. + -- 2.25.1