Boundaries: When to say yes, how to say no to take control of your life.

[iamthatis]

Well it shouldn't be too hard past the first couple of uses. The key, as always, is to read carefully the instructions. If the technobabble is too much (tech people love using their own jargon), don't hesitate to ask for more pointers. I'd be happy to help

Thank you, @Recto!

If you are comfortable using the command line/terminal (or not scared to try using it) you can use youtube-dl which is a software with many options that is updated very regularly in order to be always "compatible" with Youtube updates regarding the download of video/audio. You can find the documentation for the installation process on Mac OS and the options available here :

youtube-dl/README.md at master · ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites - ytdl-org/youtube-dl

github.com

It can be installed through Homebrew which is a command line software installer. For your use case the command would be for instance :


The youtube-dl can download the audio directly but it is either in webm or m4a format. With the command above, it downloads the video then extracts the audio to the target format. For that it uses ffmpeg + ffprobe (or avconv + avprobe), they can be installed using Homebrew as well .
For downloading a webm or m4a audio directly you can do :


I've never had any issue with this software as long as I keep it up to date. On top of that, it is powerful enough to do fancy stuff when needed (e.g. downloading playlists, bypassing georestrictions, adding post processing tasks, etc).

So I have 'youtube-dl' installed. I'm trying to download this Jordan Petersen talk on youtube:

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I open terminal, and enter:

youtube-dl --extract-audio --mp3

But I get the line, 'command not found'. Can you advise? Do I need to use the specifications listed on the youtube-dl site in order to designate a space to download, for instance? There are a lot of parameters that can be coded in, and I'm unsure what to include.

 

[whitecoast]

Thank you, @Recto!


So I have 'youtube-dl' installed. I'm trying to download this Jordan Petersen talk on youtube:

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>

I open terminal, and enter:


But I get the line, 'command not found'. Can you advise? Do I need to use the specifications listed on the youtube-dl site in order to designate a space to download, for instance? There are a lot of parameters that can be coded in, and I'm unsure what to include.

Had a quick look here:

Youtube-dl Tutorial With Examples For Beginners - OSTechNix

This tutorial explains the list of most commonly used Youtube-dl commands to download videos from Youtube and hundreds of websites in Linux.

ostechnix.com

And found this:

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-cwdnsiow

So it just looks like you don't need two dashes in front of mp3. I hope that works for you.

 

[iamthatis]

Had a quick look here:

Youtube-dl Tutorial With Examples For Beginners - OSTechNix

This tutorial explains the list of most commonly used Youtube-dl commands to download videos from Youtube and hundreds of websites in Linux.

ostechnix.com

And found this:

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-cwdnsiow

So it just looks like you don't need two dashes in front of mp3. I hope that works for you.

Thanks - I use a download site now, linked below. I often have to change my VPN in order to use it, but it has been simple and effective.

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[mkrnhr]

Usually, youtube-dl -F <yt link> gives you the formats that are available to download. The default that I use most often is youtube-dl -f 18 <link>. It's a 640x360 mp4 file (easy to play). If I need to extract the audio alone, I use ffmpeg: the simplest would be ffmpeg -i downloadedVideo.mp4 -vn outputAudio.mp3 and it's quasi instantaneous.
Hope it helps.

 

[Jones]

Here Henry Cloud talks further on how to set boundaries.

 

[Fluffy]

This is an audio rip of an old VHS set on the work of Dr Henry Cloud and Dr John Townsend on boundaries. I used to own this set but it went the way of old VHS tapes and became unplayable. I bought the book of the same name after that and wasn't as impressed by the book as I was by the work in this video set.

While the material has a heavy biblical tone, this audio challenges some of the more mainstream interpretations of the bible and does it more definitively than the book does. That said by someone has read the bible, but not studied it apart from the topics discussed on the forum and through Laura's writings. Despite that there is still some mainstream religious programming that this series of talks can highlight. One thing that I'd forgotten was the level of humour used in this set.

Suggested by a counsellor I was seeing years ago, what was most helpful was the clear definitions of what a boundary is and what a life without boundaries looks and feels like and the exploration of the flow on effects of both good boundaries and no boundaries. It's difficult to work with something where there is little experience and no clear guidelines for a way out. That doesn't mean that armed with those things, that it's an easy issue to resolve. There are still challenges along the way.

While some of the material drifts into the black and white somewhat, I think that's OK as a foundation and a base to start learning and growing from.

There 8 subjects covered, none longer than 38 mins.

1. What is a Boundary?
2 Boundaries Problems and Symptoms
3 The Laws of Boundaries Pt1
4 The Laws of Boundaries Pt2
5 The Myths of Boundaries
6 A Course of Recovery
7 Resistances to Boundaries
8 The Yardsticks of Boundaries

Part 1: What is a boundary? 35:59 mins

Part 2: Boundary problems and symptoms. 28:58 mins

Part 3: The laws of boundaries part 1. 37:35 mins

Part 4: The laws of boundaries part 2. 35:07 mins

Part 5: The myths of boundaries. 28:39 mins

Part 6: A course of recovery. 31:21 mins

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Part 7: Resistances to boundaries. 25:44 mins

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Part 8: The yardsticks of boundaries. 17:58 mins

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Hey Jones, do you know where I can find part one- What is a Boundary? It’s seems to be unavailable on the YT channel.
There’s a short version by Dr. Henry Cloud

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