Download and process Chinese songs from Youtube

This posts introduces the way to download Chinese songs from a playlist on youtube and process titles of songs. I use youtube-dl to download all songs from a playlist (replace the youtube link with your own, make sure the playlist is public): youtube-dl -i –yes-playlist -x –audio-format mp3 -o “%(title)s.%(ext)s” –audio-quality 0 “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3hxNyiwaA&index=1&list=PL-VzXmWCFX7iz_hxy6Xb-JXZFs4GGKMdG” Update 2024-1-26: …

Install Google Pinyin on Ubuntu

Just want to document the procedure to install Google Pinyin on Ubuntu (tested on 16.04): Command line: sudo apt-get install fcitx-googlepinyin2. System settings -> Language support -> Keyboard input method system, change to fcitx.3. Log out log in4. At top right, click the penguin icon -> Text entry setting5. Click +6. Search ‘Google’, find ‘Google …