Rhythm Labs Breakbeats link

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Does anyone have a link to a single compresses file of the Rhythm Labs Breakbeats from here?

https://rhythm-lab.com/breakbeats

Downloading each file individually is killing me :grimacing:

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ā€¦iā€™d say, calm ur collectors/must have it all horsesā€¦
thatā€™s pretty contraproductiveā€¦
curate ur loopsā€¦each time u start something new, u pick/choose one or two carefully curated ones, dedicated to the moment/state of mind ur in, to get it started, instead standing each time in front of an endless array of optionsā€¦

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I would just use something like the Down Them All extension.

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Exactly. Make it a video game achievement about mastering each break. You canā€™t go to the next stage in Super Mario World until youā€™ve finished the next one.

Some of these breaks take a long time to learn. Once you learn everything about it then you can make any drum kit shine.

I have the entire Paul Nice libraries and I strategically use only a few breaks between two volumes . Thatā€™s how powerful being selective can be.

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This is great! Thank you!

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Sounds like OPā€™s needs have been met using the browser extension linked above, but for those who like ā€œcode golfā€ and want to avoid installing extensions a command line approach is:

wget https://rhythm-lab.com/breakbeats -O - | \
egrep -o 'https://.+/sstorage/[^"]+\.wav' | \
head -n 5 | \
wget -i -

This will download the first five files. Get rid of the line with head -n 5 to download 'em all ā€“ though be careful as thereā€™s more than 900 of 'em.

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Youā€™re right. Iā€™ve been doing this since 1993 and I still canā€™t help clepto-sample-mania :grimacing:

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Does this work in MacOS Terminal?

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MacOS doesnā€™t come with wget by default so if you donā€™t have wget on your system (say via Homebrew) than we can accomplish the same thing in a more verbose manner using curl which is a default MacOS application. This solution is more complicated, and furthermore curl is picky about what it considers valid URLs so we need to do a little Python magic to encode the URL strings.

Unlike the wget pipeline this is a probably best done in multiple steps:

  1. Download the URLs and encode them so curl doesnā€™t error out:
curl https://rhythm-lab.com/breakbeats &> /dev/stdout | \
egrep -o 'https://.+/sstorage/[^"]+\.wav' | \
head -n 5 | \
python3 -c "import sys, urllib.parse as ul; [sys.stdout.write(ul.quote(l, safe=':/\n')) for l in sys.stdin]" \
> encoded_breakbeats.txt
  1. Download all files via xargs and curl 
xargs -n 1 curl -O < encoded_breakbeats.txt

As before, remove the head -n 5 line to get every wav file.

Note that the file names of the downloaded files via this approach are ā€œURL encodedā€ (e.g. spaces are replaced by ā€œ%20ā€) ā€“ this is kinda ugly. A little more script fu could be used to change the file names posthoc, though I leave that as an exercise for the reader :wink: The wget solution is definitely simpler.

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